Ctrl-Alt-Del - Learning to Love Legacy Code
Discover techniques for effectively working with and improving legacy code systems, focusing on understanding, refactoring, and modernizing outdated applications to enhance their functionality and maintainability.
Small Steps, Giant Leaps - Engineering Lessons from Apollo
Explore Apollo program's engineering innovations, project management techniques, and software development strategies that revolutionized space exploration and remain relevant in modern technology.
Six Little Lines of Fail
Explore distributed systems challenges in e-commerce, examining failures, coupling, and refactoring towards resilient checkout processes that embrace distributed computing fallacies.
Build vs Buy - Software Systems at Jurassic Park
Explore software development decisions at Jurassic Park, analyzing build vs. buy strategies, their consequences, and lessons learned to make better choices in system architecture and implementation.
Developing the Bloomberg Terminal - Local Performance & Measurement Techniques
Explore techniques for developing and instrumenting the Bloomberg Terminal, a high-performance multi-window browser for real-time financial data processing and analysis.
Kotlin Coroutines - New Ways to Do Asynchronous Programming
Explore Kotlin coroutines for efficient asynchronous programming. Learn about suspend functions, coroutine builders, and structural concurrency to simplify complex async operations and improve code readability.
Getting Started with Azure DevOps
Explore Azure DevOps for efficient team transformation, covering CI/CD, project management, and collaboration tools to enhance productivity and streamline development processes.
Cyberlaw - Year In Review
Irreverent overview of key cybersecurity legal issues, covering privacy, security, hacking, digital rights, and data breaches. Highlights important cases and regulations with a focus on fundamental principles.
U2F Zero - Secure Hardware Design, DIY Mass Production, and Amazon Prime
Explore U2F Zero: secure hardware design, DIY production, and Amazon Prime sales. Learn about hardware acceleration, manufacturing challenges, and cost breakdown for this innovative security device.
A Nickel Tour of the Ad Fraud Ecosystem
Explore the complex world of ad fraud, from its early days to modern detection methods, verification processes, and the roles of various players in the advertising ecosystem.
Hydra - A Federated Resource Manager for Data-Center Scale Analytics
Federated resource management system for large-scale data analytics, enabling efficient scheduling and policy enforcement across millions of cores and exabytes of data in Microsoft's internal data lake.
Solving All the Problems with systemd
Explore systemd's advanced features for flexible service management, combining traditional and container-like approaches for optimal system control and security.
SRE and DevOps at a Startup
Exploring SRE and DevOps implementation strategies for startups, comparing centralized and distributed team approaches, and discussing challenges and lessons learned.
Deploying SRE Training Best Practices to Production - What We Learned
Explore best practices for SRE training, including sequential learning, hands-on experiences, and continuous education. Learn from Google's insights on building effective SRE teams and fostering a culture of reliability.
Availability, Latency, and Cost - Withstanding Regional Outages
Explore Netflix's multi-region strategy for improved availability and latency, including algebraic models, incident management, and design considerations for efficient failovers and user steering.
Hunting for Risky Dependencies in the World of Microservices
Discover how to identify and mitigate hidden vulnerabilities in microservice architectures using OpenTelemetry, with real-world examples from Google Maps' high-risk dependencies.
Zero-Change Object Transmission for Distributed Big Data Analytics
Explore zero-change object transmission for efficient data exchange in distributed big data analytics, improving performance without code modifications.
ECOS - Practical Mobile Application Offloading for Enterprises
Explore ECOS, an enterprise-centric offloading system for mobile applications, addressing privacy concerns and resource management to improve handheld device performance and energy efficiency.
Swift - Adaptive Video Streaming with Layered Neural Codecs
Explores Swift, an adaptive video streaming system using layered neural codecs for fine-grained rate adaptation, offering improved compression and decoding efficiency over traditional layered coding approaches.
Starlight - Fast Container Provisioning on the Edge and over the WAN
Accelerates container provisioning for edge and WAN environments by redesigning deployment protocols, filesystem, and image storage, achieving 3x faster deployment with minimal overhead.
24-7 CTI - Operationalizing Cyber Threat Intelligence
Operationalizing 24/7 cyber threat intelligence: techniques, training methodologies, and lessons learned for leveraging SOC Analysts, implementing with existing tools, budget, and experience.