Achieving 100 Gbps intrusion prevention on a single server, Zhao et al., OSDI’20 Papers-we-love is hosting a mini-event this Wednesday (18th) where I’ll be leading a panel discussion including one of the authors of today’s paper choice: Justine Sherry. Please do join us if you can. We always want more! This stems from a combination of Jevon’s paradox … Continue reading Achieving 100Gbps intrusion prevention on a single server
Category: Networking
Networks and networking.
Jupiter Rising: A Decade of Clos Topologies and Centralized Control in Google’s Datacenter Network
Jupiter Rising: A Decade of Clos Topologies and Centralized Control in Google's Datacenter Network - Singh et. al (Google) 2015 Let's end the week with something completely different: a look at ten years and five generations of networking within Google's datacenters. Bandwidth demands within the datacenter are doubling every 12-15 months, even faster than the … Continue reading Jupiter Rising: A Decade of Clos Topologies and Centralized Control in Google’s Datacenter Network
Congestion Avoidance and Control
Congestion Avoidance and Control - Jacobson & Karels, 1988 (** corrected spelling of Jacobs_o_n **) It's October 1986 and there's trouble on the internet. A congestion collapse has reduced the bandwidth between LBL and UC Berkeley by a factor of a thousand. These two sites happened to be 400 yds apart. And that drop in … Continue reading Congestion Avoidance and Control
FastRoute: A scalable load-aware anycast routing architecture for modern CDNs
FastRoute: A scalable load-aware anycast routing architecture for modern CDNs - Flavel et al. 2015 This is the story of how a team at Microsoft redesigned their CDN that supports 'numerous popular online services.' It's also a great example of mature systems thinking: the team deliberately eschew designs that would give marginally better performance at … Continue reading FastRoute: A scalable load-aware anycast routing architecture for modern CDNs
The Design and Implementation of Open vSwitch
The Design and Implementation of Open vSwitch - Pfaff et al. 2015 Another selection from this month's NSDI 2015 programme, this time from the operational systems track. What inspired the creation of Open vSwitch? What has most influenced its design? And what's next? As virtualized (or containerized) workloads grew, physically provisioning networks to support them … Continue reading The Design and Implementation of Open vSwitch
Queues don’t matter when you can JUMP them
Queues don't matter when you can JUMP them - Grosvenor et al. 2015 The Cambridge Systems at Scale team are on a roll. Hot on the heels of the excellent Musketeer paper from Eurosys 2015 comes this paper on QJUMP which last week won a best paper award at NSDI'15. Distributed systems design involves trade-offs. … Continue reading Queues don’t matter when you can JUMP them
Jitsu: Just-in time summoning of unikernels
Jitsu: Just-in time summoning of unikernels - Madhavapeddy et al. 2015 Last week saw the 12th USENIX symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '15), so the papers are now open access. I've been looking forward to bringing you today's choice for some time. Take the MirageOS work on unikernels, and the Xen port … Continue reading Jitsu: Just-in time summoning of unikernels
Taming uncertainty in distributed systems with help from the network
Taming uncertainty in distributed systems with help from the network - Leners et al. 2015 Albatross is a membership service with a very interesting new twist: it exploits SDN functionality to actively enforce partitions! Perhaps it is not immediately obvious why that might be a good thing :). It turns out there are several benefits: … Continue reading Taming uncertainty in distributed systems with help from the network
TAG: A Tiny Aggregation Service for ad-hoc Sensor Networks
TAG: A Tiny Aggregation Service for ad-hoc Sensor Networks - Madden et al. 2002 ** updated broken link above ** This is the third in a series of 5 'desert island paper' selections from Peter Alvaro. The topics discussed in this paper seem so highly relevant to the current hope and excitement for the Internet … Continue reading TAG: A Tiny Aggregation Service for ad-hoc Sensor Networks
On Distributed Communications Networks
On Distributed Communications Networks - Baran 1962 Way before it became fashionable to build large-scale distributed systems out of relatively unreliable commodity hardware, Baran was investigating the properties a network built in such a way might have. This paper is very much of its time, and all the more enjoyable for it: want to know … Continue reading On Distributed Communications Networks
the morning paper 