The Role of Distributed State
The Role of Distributed State, John Ousterhout, 1990. This winter break, I’m running a reading group with some friends for foundational papers in computer systems.… Read More »The Role of Distributed State
Beyond formal education
2022 is here, and as much as I try to be reflective on a day-to-day basis, my pattern-seeking brain places special emphasis on this day… Read More »Beyond formal education
A discussion and primer on deadlocks
Deadlocks are a classic (aka pain-in-the-butt) problem in concurrent computing. As distributed systems take over the world, developers will spend many hours debugging deadlock issues… Read More »A discussion and primer on deadlocks
Vignettes of a Linux Kernel Mentee
About 5 months ago, over a dinner of oven-baked chicken thighs with rice, I stumbled upon a tweet by Greg Kroah-Hartman about Linux Kernel mentorships.… Read More »Vignettes of a Linux Kernel Mentee
Building the Linux kernel with CONFIG_KASAN
We briefly discussed the Kernel Address Sanitizer (KASAN) in a previous blog post, so today we’ll be diving into the guts of how it can… Read More »Building the Linux kernel with CONFIG_KASAN
Decoding stack traces in the Linux kernel
When a bug occurs, one of the first things we look at is the stack trace because the function calls leading up to the error… Read More »Decoding stack traces in the Linux kernel
Bug hunting in the Linux kernel
Continuing on from our last post on dynamic program analysis, today our focus is on what to do after we’ve discovered a bug. This post… Read More »Bug hunting in the Linux kernel
A novelist’s lament on the loss of Japanese aesthetics: a review of In Praise of Shadows
Western paper turns away the light, while our paper seems to take it in, to envelop it gently, like the soft surface of a first… Read More »A novelist’s lament on the loss of Japanese aesthetics: a review of In Praise of Shadows
Dynamic program analysis in the Linux kernel
Dynamic Program Analysis for Fun and Profit with Dmitry Vyukov. Part of the LF Live: Mentorship Series. Recently, I was accepted into the Linux Kernel… Read More »Dynamic program analysis in the Linux kernel
Writing a simple REPL in Go
In this post I wanted to share a simple read-eval-print-loop (REPL) that I wrote as part of following cstacks’ clone of sqlite. I’d done this… Read More »Writing a simple REPL in Go