The Pandemic and The Classroom - Enabling Education for Millions
Explore how Microsoft Teams adapted to enable remote education for millions during COVID-19, discussing challenges, solutions, and engineering strategies for large-scale online learning.
FusionFS - Fusing I/O Operations using CISCOps in Firmware File Systems
Explores FusionFS, a firmware-level filesystem leveraging near-storage computation to reduce I/O bottlenecks through CISCOps, offering improved performance and faster recovery for applications.
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.
Accelerating Encrypted Deduplication via SGX
Explore SGXDedup, a novel approach leveraging Intel SGX to accelerate encrypted deduplication for outsourced storage, offering significant performance improvements while maintaining security and efficiency.
Addra - Metadata-Private Voice Communication Over Fully Untrusted Infrastructure
Innovative system for metadata-private voice communication, scaling to 32K users with low latency. Utilizes untrusted infrastructure and novel mailbox assignment, improving on existing solutions for secure communication.
What Breaks Our Systems - A Taxonomy of Black Swans
Explore categories of unforeseen, catastrophic system failures and strategies to fortify against them, including capacity testing, incident management, and communication.
The Storage Architecture of Intel's Data Management Platform
Intel's DMP storage architecture employs Ethernet-based fabric, disaggregated storage, and Kubernetes management. It offers NVMe-oF remote volumes and local Optane DCPM volumes, optimized for different I/O patterns and managed by LINBIT's storage orchest…
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.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - The 3 Learnings of an SRE
Explore core SRE principles, focusing on incident management, monitoring, and proactive approaches. Gain insights from a young engineer's journey transitioning from academia to industry.
Twine - A Unified Cluster Management System for Shared Infrastructure
Explore Facebook's Twine, a unified cluster management system for shared infrastructure, scaling to manage one million machines across data centers with innovative approaches to workload customization and resource allocation.
Adventures in Hardware Hacking or Building Expensive Tools on a Budget
Explore hardware hacking techniques like CT scanning and chip decapping for non-destructive device analysis, circuit reconstruction, and vulnerability identification in embedded systems and access control.
Are Anonymity-Seekers Just like Everybody Else? An Analysis of Contributions to Wikipedia from Tor
Análisis de contribuciones anónimas a Wikipedia a través de Tor, comparando calidad y patrones con otros tipos de usuarios para evaluar el impacto de bloquear proxies de privacidad.
How to Not Destroy Your Production Kubernetes Clusters
Learn from real Kubernetes production incidents and best practices for maintaining high cluster availability, focusing on challenges with large-scale deployments and common operational pitfalls.
EBPF - The Next Power Tool of SREs
Explore eBPF, a revolutionary Linux kernel technology for infrastructure observation and protection. Learn its capabilities, use cases, and implementation for enhanced system reliability and security.
Toward Secure and Convenient Browsing Data Management in the Cloud
Explores a novel Cloud computing Age Browser architecture to address browsing data insecurity and inconvenience issues in modern Web browsers, leveraging cloud storage services.
Efficiently Backing Up Terabytes of Data with PgBackRest
Explore efficient PostgreSQL backup solutions with PgBackRest, featuring checksums, compression, parallel transfer, and more. Learn about its design, features, and practical applications for large-scale databases.
How to SRE When Everything's Already on Fire
Learn how Squarespace's team adopted SRE practices to transform their unreliable logging platform into a trusted system with 99.9% uptime, sharing valuable insights and strategies for improving service reliability.
Refining Systems Data without Losing Fidelity
Explore strategies for efficient systems data management, including sampling and aggregation techniques, to maintain crucial information while reducing data volume and costs.
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.
My Life as a Solo SRE
Transforming engineering culture: One SRE's journey from chaos to improved reliability, featuring practical tips on implementing SLIs, reducing incident response times, and fostering organizational change.
The Design and Implementation of Open vSwitch
Explore the architecture, design, and performance optimizations of Open vSwitch, an open-source virtual switch for hypervisor platforms, focusing on flow classification and caching techniques.