Notes concerning “Systems architecture”

• Running your regular desktop in QEMU? 2007 to 2009 (3 minutes)
• How should we design a UI for a new OS? 2012-10-10 (updated 2012-10-11) (4 minutes)
• When and why exactly should your code “tell, not ask”? That is, use CPS? 2014-01-08 (4 minutes)
• Stuff I’ve posted to kragen-tol over the years about post-HTTP 2014-02-24 (12 minutes)
• Transactional screen updates 2015-04-01 (10 minutes)
• Fault-tolerant in-memory cluster computations using containers; or, SPARK, simplified and made flexible 2015-05-28 (updated 2016-06-22) (16 minutes)
• More thoughts on powerful primitives for simplified computer systems architecture 2015-08-18 (updated 2015-11-02) (165 minutes)
• Incremental MapReduce for Abelian-group reduction functions 2015-09-03 (4 minutes)
• Viral wiki 2015-10-15 (3 minutes)
• Kogluktualuk: an operating system based on caching coarse-grained deterministic computations 2016-07-23 (21 minutes)
• DHT bulletin board 2016-09-07 (7 minutes)
• Queueing messages to amortize dynamic dispatch and take advantage of hardware heterogeneity 2016-09-17 (13 minutes)
• MiniOS 2016-12-28 (updated 2017-01-03) (6 minutes)
• Quicklayout 2017-01-10 (updated 2017-01-18) (3 minutes)
• Burst computation 2017-03-20 (13 minutes)
• Caching screen contents 2017-06-14 (2 minutes)
• Nova RDOS 2017-06-15 (22 minutes)
• Pixel stream 2017-06-15 (updated 2018-10-26) (4 minutes)
• Fast message router 2017-06-15 (updated 2019-07-23) (15 minutes)
• Service-oriented email 2017-06-20 (updated 2017-06-21) (15 minutes)
• A REST interface to a software transactional memory 2017-06-21 (2 minutes)
• Kafka-like feeds for offline-first browser apps 2017-08-03 (5 minutes)
• Real time windowing 2017-08-03 (9 minutes)
• Cached SOA desktop 2017-08-03 (updated 2018-10-26) (6 minutes)
• A minimal dependency processing system 2017-09-21 (3 minutes)
• Minimal transaction system 2017-09-21 (5 minutes)
• Minimal distributed streams 2018-04-27 (5 minutes)
• Compressing REST transactions with per-connection state 2018-04-27 (11 minutes)
• A minimal window system 2018-04-27 (updated 2018-10-26) (12 minutes)
• The TWI and I²C buses and better alternatives like CAN and RS-485 2018-06-28 (updated 2018-07-05) (24 minutes)
• Byte prefix tuple space 2018-07-14 (updated 2018-07-15) (4 minutes)
• A nonscriptable design for the Wercam windowing system 2018-10-26 (updated 2018-11-13) (6 minutes)
• Scriptable windowing for Wercam 2018-10-26 (updated 2019-07-24) (26 minutes)
• Speculative plans for BubbleOS 2018-10-28 (updated 2019-02-24) (12 minutes)
• Dehydrating processes and other interaction models 2018-12-28 (updated 2019-01-01) (36 minutes)
• Supervisor children for fault-tolerant Unix command-line programs 2019-01-04 (3 minutes)
• Transactional event handlers 2019-01-24 (14 minutes)
• A review of Wirth’s Project Oberon book 2019-02-04 (updated 2019-03-19) (63 minutes)
• Fast secure pubsub 2019-02-04 (updated 2019-12-03) (2 minutes)
• Immutability-based filesystems: interfaces, problems, and benefits 2019-02-08 (updated 2019-03-19) (23 minutes)
• Gardening machines 2019-04-02 (updated 2019-04-24) (32 minutes)
• Things in Dercuano that would be big if true 2019-05-24 (updated 2019-08-21) (24 minutes)
• Broken computer frustrations 2019-08-11 (2 minutes)
• Resurrecting duckling hashing 2019-10-26 (updated 2019-11-10) (8 minutes)
• Rsync message base 2019-11-08 (updated 2019-11-30) (29 minutes)
• Byte-stream GUI applications 2019-11-29 (updated 2019-11-30) (17 minutes)
• Bytecode pubsub 2019-12-04 (6 minutes)
• Memory safe virtual machines 2019-12-04 (14 minutes)