Links

Academic blogs

• Embedded in academia John Regehr
• Idle process Amin Vahdat
• Volatile and decentralized Matt Welsh
• All Things Distributed Werner Vogels
• Matt Might blog Matt Might
• Dave’s Data Dave Anderson

Articles

• Why I gave your paper a Strong Accept by Matt Welsh

• Why I gave your paper a Strong Reject by Matt Welsh

• Finances for recent CS Ph.Ds headed to academia by dave anderson

• How (and How Not) to Write a Good Systems Paper

• Writing reviews for systems conferences

• How to have a good career in computer science?

Interesting links

• sorting benchmarks

• end to end principles

  • Guide the underlying design of the internet

• side channels with interesting examples

  • side channels affect more than crypto, flush and reload
  • use unrelated information to infer original contents

• symbolic execution

  • for example bug detection, without testing
  • campared to static analysis, can reproduce

• transactional memory

  • difference compared to Locks, benefits but not panacea
  • how to desgin software level transactional memory.