Firemen vs Safety Matches - How the Current Skills Pipeline Is Wrong
Exploring innovative strategies to address the cybersecurity skills shortage by leveraging diverse talents and creating a sustainable workforce pipeline, inspired by first responder models.
BECs and Beyond - Investigating and Defending Office 365
Explore Office 365 security through real-world attack case studies. Learn investigation techniques, log analysis, and defense strategies to protect cloud-based enterprise environments.
Hacking the News - An Infosec Guide to the Media
Demystifying media interactions for infosec professionals, offering insights on effective communication with journalists and navigating various news channels to share expertise constructively.
Orca - Server-assisted Multicast for Datacenter Networks
Innovative multicast architecture for datacenter networks, reducing switch state and communication overhead while improving scalability and efficiency for large-scale group communications.
Scaling Open vSwitch with a Computational Cache
Innovative approach to scale Open vSwitch using NuevoMatch algorithm, improving packet classification performance and rule update speed for enhanced network virtualization efficiency.
Passive DSSS - Empowering the Downlink Communication for Backscatter Systems
Innovative technique to enhance downlink communication in backscatter systems using passive DSSS, improving SINR by 16.5 dB and extending effective range while maintaining ultra-low power consumption.
A Fresh Look at Operational Debt
Explore a new model of operational debt in SRE, focusing on process gaps and risk. Learn to prioritize and address issues for improved service reliability and team collaboration.
HTMFS - Strong Consistency Comes for Free with Hardware Transactional Memory in Persistent Memory File Systems
Explore hardware-software cooperation for high-performance, strongly consistent persistent memory file systems using Hardware Transactional Memory, overcoming traditional trade-offs between speed and data integrity.
Enabling OS Research by Inferring Interactions in the Black-Box GPU Stack
Uncover GPU stack interactions to enable OS-level resource management. Methodology creates state machines capturing meaningful transitions, allowing kernel interception and control of GPU requests.
The Origins of USAA's Postmortem of the Week
Discover USAA's journey in establishing an IT-wide Postmortem Review meeting, with tips for implementing your own large-scale review process. Learn from their experiences and insights.
How Our SREs Safeguard Nanosecond Performance - at Scale - in an Environment Built to Fail
Explore SRE principles in high-frequency trading, balancing innovation with risk management. Learn strategies for safeguarding nanosecond performance in a regulated, failure-prone environment at scale.
Ceci N'est Pas un CPU Load
Explore the limitations of digital troubleshooting compared to analog electronics, and discover why our mental models for digital systems are constrained.
DART - A Scalable and Adaptive Edge Stream Processing Engine
Scalable, adaptive edge stream processing engine for IoT applications, enabling fast processing of concurrent queries in dynamic environments through dynamic dataflow abstraction and P2P overlay networks.
Zero to SRE
Transforming junior engineers into SREs: creating a supportive environment, fostering a 'Culture of Error', encouraging mentorship, and prioritizing skill development for successful transitions and career growth.
Testing in Production at Scale
Explore real-world insights on implementing testing in production for large-scale microservices, focusing on architecture, capacity planning, and infrastructure components.
The Curse of SRE Autonomy and How to Manage It
Explores challenges of SRE autonomy, tool diversity, and development duplication. Presents solutions using a widely-adopted internal tool's history, addressing selection autonomy and automation strategies.
Complexity - The Crucial Ingredient in Your Kitchen
Explore how software engineering can learn from NASA's Challenger incident, drawing parallels to modern reliability challenges and navigating complexity in system architecture.
Capacity Prediction in External Services
Learn to predict resource exhaustion in external systems using linear regression, enabling proactive planning and sizing for improved application performance.
Large-Scale Graph Processing on Emerging Storage Devices
Explores efficient graph processing on emerging storage devices, proposing a new partitioning framework that leverages improved random access capabilities for 2X better performance than state-of-the-art solutions.
Optimizing Systems for Byte-Addressable NVM by Reducing Bit Flipping
Optimizing data structures and memory allocation to reduce bit flipping in byte-addressable non-volatile memory, improving power efficiency and memory longevity without compromising performance.
Zeph - Cryptographic Enforcement of End-to-End Data Privacy
Cryptographic system for enforcing user-defined privacy policies in real-time data analytics, ensuring compliance and protection against breaches while maintaining scalability and low latency.