SKQ - Event Scheduling for Optimizing Tail Latency in a Traditional OS Kernel
Explore SKQ, a FreeBSD Kqueue redesign that significantly improves application tail latency and low-latency throughput through scalable architecture and event scheduling policies.
Improving Performance of Flash Based Key-Value Stores Using Storage Class Memory as a Volatile Memory Extension
Explore using Storage Class Memory to enhance flash-based key-value stores' performance in data centers, focusing on RocksDB improvements and cost-effectiveness for large-scale applications.
Exploring the Design Space of Page Management for Multi-Tiered Memory Systems
Explores page management strategies for multi-tiered memory systems, analyzing access locality and tier importance to optimize performance in DRAM and SCM configurations.
UniStore - A Fault-Tolerant Marriage of Causal and Strong Consistency
Explores a fault-tolerant data store combining causal and strong consistency for geo-distributed systems, addressing liveness challenges and optimizing durability costs in multi-consistency environments.
ArchTM - Architecture-Aware, High Performance Transaction for Persistent Memory
Innovative architecture-aware transaction system for persistent memory, enhancing performance through strategic write management and memory allocation techniques.
Thunderbolt - Throughput-Optimized, Quality-of-Service-Aware Power Capping at Scale
Explore power capping in data centers with Thunderbolt, a system optimizing throughput and quality of service. Learn about hardware-agnostic solutions for safe power oversubscription and task-level QoS differentiation.
Real World Zero Trust Implementation
Practical insights on implementing Zero Trust security in a cloud-based, remote work environment. Covers challenges, solutions, and lessons learned from real-world experience.
Playing the Short Game - The Effects of Data Breaches on Share Prices
Explore the financial impact of data breaches on public companies through stock price analysis, examining trends and predictive models to understand the true cost of security shortfalls.
Bitcoin Over Tor Isn't a Good Idea
Explores security vulnerabilities when using Bitcoin with Tor, demonstrating how attackers can compromise user privacy, control information flow, and potentially identify users despite anonymization attempts.
Counter-RAPTOR - Safeguarding Tor Against Active Routing Attacks
Explore techniques to protect Tor against active routing attacks, including a new guard relay selection algorithm and a real-time BGP monitoring system for detecting routing anomalies.
MitM Attack by Name Collision - Cause Analysis and Vulnerability Assessment in the New gTLD Era
Explore MitM attacks via name collision, analyzing causes and vulnerabilities in the new gTLD era. Learn about WPAD query leakage, attack surface characterization, and potential remediation strategies.
An Extensive Formal Security Analysis of the OpenID Financial Grade API
Comprehensive formal security analysis of OpenID Financial-grade API, uncovering vulnerabilities and proposing mitigations for this high-stakes OAuth 2.0 profile designed for Open Banking scenarios.
Which Privacy and Security Attributes Most Impact Consumers' Risk Perception and Willingness to Purchase IoT Devices
Explore how privacy and security factors influence consumer perceptions and purchasing decisions for IoT devices, with insights on risk assessment and labeling effectiveness.
Building a Path to the Future - Mentoring New SREs
Strategies for effective mentorship in SRE, focusing on remote work challenges and the importance of guiding principles, documentation, and sponsorship for career growth.
Automated Operating System and Environment Certification at LinkedIn - Reducing Toil and Increasing Velocity
Automated OS certification at LinkedIn: Reducing toil, increasing velocity. Discusses project evolution, challenges, and early results in enhancing certification processes across data centers and Azure.
The 'Success' in SRE Is Silent
Strategies for demonstrating ROI in SRE and availability work, addressing challenges and potential regulatory issues to ensure continued investment and positive outcomes.
Are We There Yet? - Metrics-Driven Prioritization for Your Reliability Roadmap
Metrics-driven framework for prioritizing reliability improvements in SRE teams. Guides leaders in making data-based decisions, highlighting successes, and gaining support for impactful initiatives.
K-Fingerprinting - A Robust Scalable Website Fingerprinting Technique
Explores k-fingerprinting, a robust website fingerprinting technique using random decision forests, demonstrating high accuracy in identifying visited web pages through encrypted connections.
All of Our ML Ideas Are Bad - and We Should Feel Bad
Explores limitations of Machine Learning in production engineering, debunking common misconceptions and discussing potential feasible applications for SREs.
A Systems Approach to Safety and Cybersecurity
Explore systems thinking for safety and cybersecurity, integrating approaches to manage emergent properties and control problems in complex systems.
How to Do SRE When You Have No SRE
Practical strategies for implementing Site Reliability Engineering principles in resource-constrained environments, focusing on gradual improvements and stress reduction for engineering teams.