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March 10, 2025

Codon: Python Compiler Update

Codon now includes NumPy, is more accepting of existing Python scripts, and Exaloop has changed their license to a more open one.

Authors: Rik Farrow

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February 24, 2025

License to Observe: Why Observability Solutions Need Agents

A deep-dive on the tradeoffs involved in getting telemetry from your services into your observability system

Authors: Dominik Suess

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Laura Nolan

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January 24, 2025

NVLog: an Elegant Approach to Integrate NVM

Researchers have been attempting to redesign various system infrastructures for NVM, but is redesigning everything really the only solution? NVLog offers a different perspective...

Authors: Guoyu Wang, Juncheng Hu

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Rik Farrow

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January 13, 2025

Quantum Computing Notes: Why Is It Always Ten Years Away?

Written for software engineers, an overview of the advantages, challenges, and limitations of Quantum Computing. Is the technology ready to become a disruptive force?

Authors: Konstantin V. Shvachko

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Rik Farrow

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December 18, 2024

The Evolution of SRE at Google

In response to the vast increase in scale of their systems, Google SREs have been using the STAMP (System-Theoretic Accident Model and Processes) framework for finding problems.

Authors: Tim Falzone, Ben Treynor Sloss

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Rik Farrow

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December 16, 2024

Enabling Reproducibility through the SPHERE Research Infrastructure

SPHERE transforms cybersecurity and privacy research by enabling reproducible, sophisticated experiments, fostering peer review, and accelerating scientific progress

Authors: Jelena Mirkovic, Brian Kocoloski, David Balenson

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Rik Farrow

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November 26, 2024

Synthetic Monitoring & End-to-End Testing: Two Sides of the Same Coin

Monitoring-as-code can help to support better communication and collaboration between development, operations, and testing, as well as reduce cost and complexity.

Authors: Carly Richmond

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Laura Nolan

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November 14, 2024

Sieve: Chaos Testing for Kubernetes Controllers

Ensuring Kubernetes controller correctness and reliability is challenging, and chaos testing can uncover many severe bugs.

Authors: Xudong Sun, Wenqing Luo, Jiawei Tyler Gu, Aishwarya Ganesan, Ramnatthan Alagappan, Michael Gasch, Lalith Suresh, Tianyin Xu

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Laura Nolan

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October 11, 2024

Gear Shift Hacks: Uncovering the Security Risks of Wireless Technology in Professional Cycling

In the midst of the Tour de France, the race leader faces unexpected gear malfunctions while climbing L’Alpe D’Huez. Is it a mere technical glitch or a sign of high-tech foul play?

Authors: Maryam Motallebighomi, Earlence Fernandes, Aanjhan Ranganathan

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Rik Farrow

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October 7, 2024

Exploiting Smartphones

Some history of exploiting smartphones, starting with the iPhone, and a description of a paper about Android and Linux kernel defenses and where they are lacking.

Authors: Rik Farrow

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Rik Farrow

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September 30, 2024

Solving the First-Mile Problem

If side channels are like mind reading, this is mind control. Using lasers to execute arbitrary code.

Authors: Joe Loughry

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Rik Farrow

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September 4, 2024

Navigating the Kubernetes Odyssey

How ThousandEyes went from running in a bunch of servers in a garage, to being a full fledged, cloud native, multi-region platform in Kubernetes.

Authors: Raúl Benencia

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Laura Nolan

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August 29, 2024

Artificial Intelligence and the New Economics of Cyberattacks

A careful examination of the way that AI will affect both attackers and defenders

Authors: Vaibhav Garg, Jayati Dev

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Rik Farrow

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August 15, 2024

Measuring the Great Firewall's Multi-layered Web Filtering Apparatus

Authors: Nguyen Phong Hoang, Nick Feamster

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Rik Farrow

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August 2, 2024

Acto: Push-Button End-to-End Testing for Operation Correctness of Kubernetes Operators

Acto is an open-source end-to-end testing tool for correctness in Kubernetes operators.

Authors: Jiawei Tyler Gu, Xudong Sun, Zhen Tang, Chen Wang, Mandana Vaziri, Owolabi Legunsen, Tianyin Xu

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Laura Nolan

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July 30, 2024

Analysis of USENIX Paper Downloads

An analysis of the millions of paper and presentation downloads occurring in the summer of 2024, and what makes papers more popular.

Authors: Rik Farrow

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July 29, 2024

Consequences of Compliance: The CrowdStrike Outage of 19 July 2024

Taking stock of the largest digital systems outage in history

Authors: Laura Nolan

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Rik Farrow

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July 16, 2024

Fuzzing BusyBox: Leveraging LLM and Crash Reuse for Embedded Bug Unearthing

Using LLMs to create seeds for fuzzing IoT binaries works well, as does keeping track of crashes occurring during the fuzzing of similar binaries.

Authors: Asmita, Yaroslav Oliinyk, Michael Scott, Ryan Tsang, Chongzhou Fang, Houman Homayoun

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Rik Farrow

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