Excited to start the next chapter with our awesome team at Splunk!

Looks like it’s possible to intercept traffic in a kubernetes cluster to an IP address by creating a ClusterIP Service and setting its ExternalIP (and kube-proxy would create iptables rules to steer the traffic to the service)

What could be better than starting out the new year with some amazing ASPLOS'21 papers? A 2-page summary of each (conditionally) accepted paper is available now! asplos-conference.org/papers/ We will go through each of them in this new year. Stay tuned!!!

Are you a student working on systems research. You should submit your early work to the SOSP Student Research Competition (SRC) and get some early feedback. All you need to do is write and submit an 800 word abstract by August 7. More information: sosp2021.mpi-sws.org/cfsrc.html

This framework is useful not only for cold emails but also warm emails, for example for folks who have expressed interest at a conference. Craft a good subject. Personalize. Get to benefits quickly. Clear, low friction ask. Keep it short. Read full thread for details.

Congratulations Jake and team! Good luck in the next step of your journey!

Not being widely reported (that I’ve seen), but Dem’s proposed QSBS change (which would take effect starting tomorrow) will massively impact entrepreneurs and investors. A LOT of people scrambling over the past couple of hours.

An engaging writeup on undefined code in C/C++, (sometime unexpected) compiler optimizations on such code, and recommendations for developers how to avoid common pitfalls (among which, automatic checking). Schrödinger's Code - ACM Queue queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=… via ACM Queue

It's not every day that I can tweet my PhD cover... 🙃 (In case you're interested: vanbever.eu/pdfs/vanbever_…)

I found a copy of Bob Taylor’s pithy rules for running Xerox PARC on @tforcworc’s website: timeless advice for anyone running a systems research team. cl.cam.ac.uk/~jac22/zen-lab…

Our internship application is up! Apply to work with me Dan Ports, @[email protected] Rodrigo Fonseca Andrew Baumann Jay Lorch and the other great folks in our group. Unfortunately, we can only take PhD interns in the US and Canada this year. Apply here! careers.microsoft.com/us/en/job/1203…

Proud of my brother who directed sound for this VR game (Cosmonious High) — released today!

Agree that without observability, it is hard to achieve reliability, scalability and security, and that eBPF and the API are good observability surfaces. I wish our programming languages also treated o11y as a first class citizen, e.g. devs exposing telemetry on function return.

Q: How do you call developers constantly changing Story Points mid-sprint? A: Chaos Engineering!

Refreshingly nuanced

Kubecon is coming up! Please join my talk about how to mitigate increased service times (found to increase >25%), and tail latency (4-13x), due to uncontrolled use of memory bandwidth and cache resources. On the schedule: sched.co/1i7qF #KubeCon + #CloudNativeCon