Wednesday, December 8, 2021

How to add debuginfo to perf(1)

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Sometimes it's necessary to add debuginfo so perf-report(1) and similar commands can display human-readable function names instead of ra...
Monday, November 8, 2021

Peer-to-peer applications with Urbit

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This article gives an overview of the architecture of Urbit applications. I spent a weekend trying out Urbit, reading documentation, and di...
Friday, October 15, 2021

A new approach to usermode networking with passt

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There is a new project called passt that Stefano Brivio has been working on to implement usermode networking, the magic that ...
Thursday, September 16, 2021

KVM Forum 2021 Highlights

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Here are highlights from this year's KVM Forum conference, the yearly event around QEMU, KVM, and related communities like VIRTIO and ru...
Friday, July 2, 2021

Slides available for "Bring Your Own Virtual Devices: Frameworks for Software and Hardware Device Virtualization"

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The PDF slides for my "Bring Your Own Virtual Devices: Frameworks for Software and Hardware Device Virtualization" talk from the ...
Sunday, June 20, 2021

My performance benchmarking workflow (2021)

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Benchmarking computer systems is time-consuming because setting up the necessary environment involves a lot of work. Over time I have built ...
Monday, April 5, 2021

Learning programming languages

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You may be productive and comfortable in one programming language but find the idea of learning a new programming language daunting. Or you ...