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Thank you! :)


Noted - thanks!


This paper is from a conference a few months ago (SOSP), it's possible you read a pre-print (or maybe the CacheLib paper [1]).

Facebook publishes lots of systems research! FWIW I also write a fair bit about the other systems research from Microsoft Research, etc - what you are seeing in my posting history is me sharing my writing a few times (as permitted by HN rules)

[1] https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi20/presentation/berg


I'm just pretty curious. I've seen you repeated share Facebook Delos related posts quite a number of times in the past two months. Delos I think is super super super super interesting, super think there's really good elementary & basic ways to rebuild data-systems that we should all wake up, pay attention to, rebuild, & do, right away. And it saddens me to see lack of interaction. But also, to be honest, your posting has been fairly persistent about a number of topics. I've been curious who you are & what motivates you.

My apologies. I was doing a lot of tab sweeping. Kangaroo is indeed from October. Somehow that tab had gotten moved & come to reside amongst a bunch of far older tabs!


> I've been curious who you are & what motivates you.

I'm just a person who enjoys reading and writing about systems - information on me available in HN profile and on the blog :)


Really neat paper - I wrote a summary of it here: https://www.micahlerner.com/2021/11/30/faster-and-cheaper-se...


Thanks!


Thanks for the feedback! Does this Atom feed work for you? https://www.micahlerner.com/feed.xml


Yep, thanks.


If you're interested in Firecracker, I wrote a summary of the original paper here: https://www.micahlerner.com/2021/06/17/firecracker-lightweig...


Any idea how much it has diverged from crosvm?


Quite a lot. Initially, a lot of the changes were removing things from crosvm, but adding features like snapshots, and factoring things out into RustVMM, has made them diverge a lot more.

There's some data in the paper about how similar they were then, too.


Great article @mlerner


Neat - thanks for sharing! A friend mentioned Orleans, queueing up the paper (found this one https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/orleans...) for future reading.


The claim about people with "A+ credentials" not working in crypto is off base.

Look at the founders of crypto companies from top-tier VCs like a16z: https://a16z.com/crypto/#vertical-landing-portfolio


I should have been more clear: new crypto projects rarely have pedigreed founders anymore.


Rarely, yes, but there are some. I also think you could say "new startups rarely have pedigreed founders". Like any business class, most new entrants try and fail.

I like a long tail, because it means there's a better correlation of profit and skill in being able to (sometimes) predict a company's future. When everything is a bit safer across the board, you can't convert wisdom into money at quite the same rate.


thats because they all got their reputations sullied when their projects last decade tanked in price 99%

Crypto communities do not understand the concept of secession in an organization, and believe that if you earned revenue then the runway should last forever and you should be married to the project forever

It doesnt matter, the same people are launching projects now under different aliases. The market doesnt actually care. There is no way to discern between a project that will screw you over versus one that wont, versus one that will rally 5,000% because that has no correlation to legitimacy or any gatekeeping of checkboxes


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