The story we were told at a bank that I cannot name is that all their time synchronization was the domain of an engineer tucked
Read moreBack in the day
This is an embarrassing confession when I think back on how little I knew and how much I thought I knew. At the height of
Read moreHeartbleed and open source
The Heartbleed bug was caused by a business model error. When we were in the real-time software business, our best customer was an old line
Read moreMeasuring NTPd in the Cloud II
The problem with ntpd is the sudden performance degradations which can occur when conditions deviate from ‘ideal’. We have detailed these robustness issues of ntpd in prior work,
Read moreEconomics of Free Software
Fate has made me the “money guy” for OpenSSL so I’m going to talk about that for a bit. As has been well reported in
Read moreMeasuring Clock Synchronization in the Cloud- NTPd versus TimeKeeper
Measured on Amazon EC2. Standard deviation from reference time over 20 hours TimeKeeper: 23 microseconds NTPd: 6000 microseconds (6 milliseconds)
Read moreAt issue in Apple versus Samsung patent fight
A system and method causes a computer to detect and perform actions on structures identified in computer data. The system provides an analyzer server, an
Read moreManaged services (and cloud) for financial industry
The nature of data security is constantly changing for the financial industry. With the ever-growing need for tighter IT infrastructure security and the increasing prevalence
Read moreCassandra Cluster Synchronization
Cassandra is a highly-distributable NoSQL database with tunable consistency. What makes it highly distributable makes it also, in part, vulnerable: the whole deployment must run on
Read moreNTPd DOS attacks
Miscreants who earlier this week took down servers for League of Legends, EA.com, and other online game services used a never-before-seen technique that vastly amplified the amount
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