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A collection of The Morning Paper posts relating to containers, operating systems etc.

In order of first appearance in The Morning Paper.

• On the duality of operating system structures
• Why threads are a bad idea
• Why events are a bad idea
• Unikernels: library operating systems for the cloud
• The scalable commutativity rule: designing scalable software for multicore processors
• Jitsu: just-in time summoning of unikernels

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References from my QCon London 2016 Keynote

• The Morning Paper blog

Thinking Tools

• Scalability! But at what COST?
• Tachyon: Reliable, Memory Speed Storage for Cluster Computing
• Musketeer - Part I: What's the best data processing system?
• Musketeer - Part II: all for one, and one for all in data processing systems

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import Data.List

data Atom = Hydrogen | Carbon Atom Atom Atom
type Paraffin = (Atom, Atom, Atom, Atom)

instance Show Atom where
  show (Hydrogen) = "H"
  show (Carbon a1 a2 a3) = "C[" ++ show a1 ++ "," ++ show a2 ++ "," ++ show a3 ++ "]"

instance Eq Atom where

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Internet Scale Services Checklist

A checklist for designing and developing internet scale services, inspired by James Hamilton's 2007 paper "On Desgining and Deploying Internet-Scale Services."

• http://mvdirona.com/jrh/talksandpapers/jamesrh_lisa.pdf

Basic tenets

• Does the design expect failures to happen regularly and handle them gracefully?
• Have we kept things as simple as possible?