Shielding applications from an untrusted cloud with Haven

June 16, 2016 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ 5 Comments

Shielding applications from an untrusted cloud with Haven Baumann et al. OSDI 2014 Our objective is to run existing server applications in the cloud with a level of trust and security roughly equivalent to a user operating their own hardware in a locked cage at a colocation facility. We're all familiar with the idea of ... Continue Reading

IX: A protected dataplane operating system for high throughput and low latency

June 15, 2016 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ 8 Comments

IX: A Protected Dataplane Operating System for High Throughput and Low Latency Belay et al. OSDI 2014 This is the second of Simon Peter's recommended papers in the 'Data Center OS Design' Research for Practice guide. Like Arrakis, IX splits the operating system into a control plane and data plane for networking. To quote Simon ... Continue Reading

Arrakis: the operating system is the control plane

June 14, 2016 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ 3 Comments

Arrakis: The Operating System is the Control Plane - Peter et al. OSDI 2014 ACM Queue just introduced their "Research for Practice" series with Peter Bailis. Each edition contains 'expert curated guides to the best of CS research,' and in the first instalment Simon Peter selects a set of papers on data-center operating system trends, ... Continue Reading

Identifying and quantifying architectural debt

June 13, 2016 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ 3 Comments

Identifying and quantifying architectural debt - Xiao et al., ICSE 2016 (Update: thanks to Lu Xiao for providing an open access version of this paper, the link above has now been updated to point to it.) So finally we have arrived at Xiao et al.'s 2016 ICSE paper (see the write-ups on Design Rule Spaces ... Continue Reading

Hotspot Patterns: The formal definition and automatic detection of architecture smells

June 10, 2016 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ 6 Comments

Hotspot Patterns: The formal definition and automatic detection of architecture smells - Mo et al. International Conference on Software Architecture, 2015 Yesterday we looked at Design Rule Spaces (DRSpaces) and how some design rule spaces seem to account for large numbers of the error-prone files within a project. Today's paper brings us up to date ... Continue Reading

Design Rule Spaces: A new form of architectural insight

June 9, 2016 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ 4 Comments

Design Rule Spaces: A new form of architectural insight - Xiao et al. ICSE '14 Continuing the theme of looking at ICSE 2016 papers, I want to share with you some interesting work by Xiao et al. on "Identifying and quantifying architectural debt." That paper however draws heavily on two previous works that it makes ... Continue Reading

On the “naturalness” of buggy code

June 8, 2016 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ Leave a comment

On the 'naturalness' of buggy code - Ray, Hellendoorn, et al. ICSE 2016 Last week we looked at a simpler approach to building static code checkers that by understanding less about the overall code structure and just focusing in on the things that really mattered was able to produce competitive results from very small checker ... Continue Reading

BigDebug: Debugging primitives for interactive big data processing in Spark

June 7, 2016 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ 2 Comments

BigDebug: Debugging primitives for interactive big data processing in Spark - Gulzar et al. ICSE 2016 BigDebug provides real-time interactive debugging support for Data-Intensive Scalable Computing (DISC) systems, or more particularly, Apache Spark. It provides breakpoints, watchpoints, latency monitoring, forward and backward tracing, crash monitoring, and a real-time fix-and-resume capability. The overheads are low for ... Continue Reading

From Aristotle to Ringelmann

June 6, 2016 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ 11 Comments

From Aristotle to Ringelmann: A large-scale analysis of team productivity and coordination in open-source software projects - Scholtes et al. ICSE 2016 A slightly different flavour of papers this week as we dip into the ICSE 2016 conference proceedings. We kick things off with a study looking at the effect of development team size on ... Continue Reading

Semi-supervised sequence learning

June 3, 2016 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ 1 Comment

Semi-supervised sequence learning - Dai & Le, NIPS 2015. The sequence to sequence learning approach we looked at yesterday has been used for machine translation, text parsing, image captioning, video analysis, and conversational modeling. In Semi-supervised sequence learning, Dai & Le use a clever twist on the sequence-to-sequence approach to enable it to be used ... Continue Reading

the morning paper

a random walk through Computer Science research, by Adrian Colyer
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Month: June 2016