We are currently building a very large Akka system. It will have a gazillion connections to various external systems, lots of queues and internal services. Time to browse through Stevens for some inspiration on protocol design.

 

Via @msimoni

The console for my Symbolics XL1200 survived but beam adjustment is a bit off. The special cable connecting the console to the workstation got lost too. I asked David Schmidt for a replacement. Meanwhile I'll tinker with the console using the field manual for the Symbolics 3600.

I'm designing a new distributed system for a customer which unlike the legacy system will have to scale horizontally. And of course we run into a lot of classic design problems when building a distributed system. The Lamport, Shostak, Pease paper is a classic and worth reading again.

 

The Dynamo paper explains some of the concepts used in the Riak distributed KV store.

 

 

Paper recommended by Coda Hale and Ryan Kennedy of Yammer.

I can also recommend their Riak and Scala at Yammer presentation.

Mark S. Miller did some deep thinking about security and the web. Back in the Xanadu days he worked together with Mark Stiegler. Stiegler later developed CapDes wrote the novel Earthweb about idea futures and reputation systems.

Via @argv0 who recommended this paper to @nathanmarz .

Joanna Rutkowska made some progress with her Qubes OS. She released the Beta 1 of Qubes in April.