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 [...]
In his interview with Jim Gray, Werner Vogels talks about how Amazon.com structures and builds its internal systems. While many others have noted his comments on web technologies and development methods, I am more interested in a few points he raised at the end about building and testing distributed systems and what those of us in academic systems research can [...]
What’s on prime time television these days? Looking at the dramas, offhand there are crime dramas (Law and Order, CSI), medical dramas (House, Grey’s Anatomy), mystery thrillers (24, Alias), family stories (Gilmore Girls, 7th Heaven), and people having sex (The OC, One Tree Hill). Maybe there’s something missing.
How about a drama about the lives of graduate students and professors? [...]
