Ada

Post

Learning From Ada

Why, as a younger programmer, I decided to learn C instead of Ada.

C

Post

Learning From Ada

Why, as a younger programmer, I decided to learn C instead of Ada.

Cgo

Talk

Adventures in Cgo Performance

Performance challenges when using Go’s Cgo APIs.

Code Management

Post

Things I'd like in my code management tool

What I’d like to see in a full-featured code management tool like GitHub or GitLab.

Confidential Computing

Paper

Confidential Container Groups: Implementing confidential computing on Azure container instances

A paper about the technology behind Confidential Azure Container Instances.
Paper

Parma: Confidential Containers via Attested Execution Policies

A paper about the technology behind Confidential Azure Container Instances.

Containers

Paper

Confidential Container Groups: Implementing confidential computing on Azure container instances

A paper about the technology behind Confidential Azure Container Instances.
Paper

Parma: Confidential Containers via Attested Execution Policies

A paper about the technology behind Confidential Azure Container Instances.

Cryptography

Paper

Confidential Container Groups: Implementing confidential computing on Azure container instances

A paper about the technology behind Confidential Azure Container Instances.
Paper

Parma: Confidential Containers via Attested Execution Policies

A paper about the technology behind Confidential Azure Container Instances.

Distributed Systems

Talk

Data Corrupting Architectures We Know and Love

How we’ve taken data race and corruption problems that exist on single-machine systems and transferred many of those patterns over to our distributed systems.
Talk

Pat Helland and Me

How to build stateful distributed applications that can scale almost infinitely.
Talk

How Did I Get Here?

Building Confidence in a Distributed Stream Processor.
Panel

The Promises and Perils of Eschewing Distributed Coordination

QCon NY 2019 Panel discusses Distributed Coordination.

Go

Talk

Adventures in Cgo Performance

Performance challenges when using Go’s Cgo APIs.

Pony

Interview

Pony Programming Language with Sylvan Clebsch and Sean Allen -- Conversation #7

Sylvan Clebsch, Mike Shah, and I discuss the Pony programming language.
Interview

Pony: High-Performance, Memory-Safe Actors with Sean Allen

Kris Jenkins and I discuss Pony and some of its unique features.
Interview

Unproven Tech Case Study with Sean Allen

I was interviewed about how to pick tools and a variety of related topics for the corecursive podcast.
Talk

On Deny Capabilities for Safe, Fast Actors

How Pony combines Deny Capabilities with an actor-based model to provide data-race freedom and fearless concurrency.
Talk

Pony

How I learned to stop worrying and embrace an unproven technology.
Panel

The Promises and Perils of Eschewing Distributed Coordination

QCon NY 2019 Panel discusses Distributed Coordination.

Python

Talk

Scale-Independent Python

How to scale your Python application without any code changes.

Scaling

Talk

On Deny Capabilities for Safe, Fast Actors

How Pony combines Deny Capabilities with an actor-based model to provide data-race freedom and fearless concurrency.
Talk

Pat Helland and Me

How to build stateful distributed applications that can scale almost infinitely.
Talk

Scale-Independent Python

How to scale your Python application without any code changes.

Security

Paper

Confidential Container Groups: Implementing confidential computing on Azure container instances

A paper about the technology behind Confidential Azure Container Instances.
Paper

Parma: Confidential Containers via Attested Execution Policies

A paper about the technology behind Confidential Azure Container Instances.

Software Architecture

Post

An Acceptable Tool

Sometimes, acceptable is better than best.

Storm Applied

Post

On Becoming a Better Teacher

What Kathy Sierra taught me about being a better teacher.
Post

Storm Applied: Behind the Scenes

What it was like writing Storm Applied.

Stream Processing

Talk

How Did I Get Here?

Building Confidence in a Distributed Stream Processor.

Teaching

Post

On Becoming a Better Teacher

What Kathy Sierra taught me about being a better teacher.

Technical Debt

Post

Of Debt and Decisions

Technical debt; maybe not so bad.

Testing

Talk

How Did I Get Here?

Building Confidence in a Distributed Stream Processor.

Wallaroo

Interview

Unproven Tech Case Study with Sean Allen

I was interviewed about how to pick tools and a variety of related topics for the corecursive podcast.