Cassandra is quite interesting – and time sync seems increasingly critical to correct operation. Here are some resources: A paper on the storage model from
Read moreReal-time Linux
My opinion has always been that the Linux-RT project was based on an unfixable engineering error. A few words on the status and the
Read moreA basic design error in software
Suppose we didn’t know too much about bridge design, but were convinced that (a) the current design methods were too slow and unmodular to be
Read moreObama’s big data team
Those applications used a huge chunk of Amazon’s Eastern data center. “We had thousands of nodes,” said VanDenPlas. “We pushed 180TB of traffic with billions
Read moreBig Data and politics
For the general public, there was no way to know that the idea for the Parker contest had come from a data-mining discovery about some
Read moreFree Software Patents: Alan Cox
1. A method, comprising: storing, by one or more processors, confidential data in a confidential section of virtual memory, wherein storing the confidential data in
Read moreJulia programming language and hadoop
While we’re being demanding, we want something that provides the distributed power of Hadoop — without the kilobytes of boilerplate Java and XML; without being
Read moreApple’s A5 chip made in Austin
Although I think it might have been designed here too. The A5 processor – the brain in the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 – is
Read moreDroning on about computer security
Good grief. The US military’s unmanned Predator and Reaper drones are continuing to fly remote missions overseas despite a computer virus that has infected their
Read moreThe multics file system
The design proposed in this paper is ubiquitous. A file is simply an ordered sequence of elements, where an element could be a machine word,
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