We are currently building a very large Akka system. It will have a gazillion connections to various external systems, lots of queues and internal services. Time to browse through Stevens for some inspiration on protocol design.

Via @msimoni

The console for my Symbolics XL1200 survived but beam adjustment is a bit off. The special cable connecting the console to the workstation got lost too. I asked David Schmidt for a replacement. Meanwhile I’ll tinker with the console using the field manual for the Symbolics 3600.

I’m designing a new distributed system for a customer which unlike the legacy system will have to scale horizontally. And of course we run into a lot of classic design problems when building a distributed system. The Lamport, Shostak, Pease paper is a classic and worth reading again.

The Dynamo paper explains some of the concepts used in the Riak distributed KV store.

Paper recommended by Coda Hale and Ryan Kennedy of Yammer.

I can also recommend their Riak and Scala at Yammer presentation.

Joanna Rutkowska made some progress with her Qubes OS. She released the Beta 1 of Qubes in April.