December 2008
5 posts
Eventually Consistent - ACM Queue →
Easy-to-read article on “eventual consistency” by Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon. He also wrote about this in his paper about Amazon Dynamo back in 2007.
Alecco Locco: The Ephemeral Ports Problem (and... →
Your networking textbook will say only the (source IP, source port, dest IP, dest port) tuple has to be unique but the Linux kernel won’t agree with you apparently when it comes to ephemeral ports :)
Building your programming language arsenal
It’s almost the end of 2008 and I spent the rainy afternoon playing with Factor. I then went into this sort of a flashback mode thinking about what each programming language has taught me so far and what I should be learning next year. So this post will literally be a dump of that train of thought albeit re-organized a bit for sanity.
[ <2003 ] - BASIC, C
I didn’t really...
An Illustrated Guide to the Kaminsky DNS... →
If you read the Wired article that’s been circulating everywhere about Dan Kaminsky’s recent DNS exploit and felt dissatisfied with the lack of technical details, take a look at this webpage. The exploit and the quick fix are explained with nice illustrations.
Presentations on MySQL →
Great set of presentations on MySQL.