The afternoon of Boston DevDays 2009 was, in my opinion, not as broadly appealing as the morning sessions (see my writeup of the morning here). However, there was still a lot of interesting material presented.
Joel welcomed us back from lunch by plugging StackExchange and how it’ll mean the end of “crappy old copies of Usenet” (by [...]
Boston DevDays kicked off a month-long tour of technical talks aimed at programmers, organized by StackOverflow and Carsonified. I had the good fortune to attend, meet a few interesting people and see some fun talks. I tried to write a bit in real-time (search Twitter here) but the WiFi was pretty over-subscribed and there was no cell coverage to speak [...]
Mike Freedman and I have known each other since we were Masters students at MIT, working on things like the Tarzan anonymizing network (a parallel, pre-cursor to Tor). He went on to build the hugely successful (”as seen on Slashdot”) Coral content distribution network, which figured largely in his dissertation. It’s a great [...]
Justin Cappos received his PhD from the University of Arizona under the supervision of John Hartman. I met Justin several years ago at a PlanetLab Consortium meeting when he was starting to work on Stork, a system to simplify package deployment. He is currently a Post Doc at the University of Washington working [...]
After my last post on implementing Chord, I thought it might be insightful and educational to examine how others are building research distributed systems. I have asked a number of colleagues who have built successful research systems to answer a few questions about their implementations. Here, successful roughly means that the system has [...]
The Chord protocol dynamically constructs robust and scalable overlay networks that map a given key to an active node. The MIT PDOS Chord implementation has served as a reference implementation of Chord, and over the years has accumulated many tweaks and improvements. While the theoretical highlights have largely been documented in our publications, [...]
Today, VMware co-founder Mendel Rosenblum gave a Deuterzos Lecture at MIT titled The Impact of Virtualization on Modern Computing Environments. His talk outlined the general function of virtualization as an interposing layer between the hardware and the operating system, and the evolution of functionality in this layer over the past decade—in short, the talk [...]
At today’s VMworld keynote, CTO Steve Herrod included a brief demonstration of the project that I have been working on at VMware since last May: the Mobile Virtualization Platform (MVP). One of the downsides of working in industry as opposed to academia is that you have to wait for big release dates such as [...]
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