% August Reading: how to run software?
% Michael Stone
% August 16, 2013

I've been reading about how to run software. Here are some of the more curious
approaches that I've examined:

  * the [debathena](http://debathena.mit.edu/) way
  * [Russ Allbery's](http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/notes/debian/server.html) Debian + puppet way
  * the [Nix](http://nixos.org/) way
  * the [Wikimedia Operations](http://blog.wikimedia.org/c/technology/operations/) way
  * the Akamai way:
      * ["The Akamai Network"](http://www.akamai.com/dl/technical_publications/network_overview_osr.pdf)
      * [ACMS](http://www.akamai.com/dl/technical_publications/ACMSTheAkamaiConfigurationManagementSystem.pdf)
      * [Query](http://www.akamai.com/dl/technical_publications/lisa_2010.pdf)
  * the Google way:
      * scheduling: ["Omega: flexible, scalable schedulers for large compute clusters"](http://eurosys2013.tudos.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/paper/Schwarzkopf.pdf)
      * configuration: ["GCL Viewer: A study in improving the understanding of GCL programs"](http://alexandria.tue.nl/extra1/afstversl/wsk-i/bokharouss2008.pdf), 2008 Masters Thesis by Ibrahim Bokharouss
      * deployment: ["Maintaining Consistency in a Massively Parallel Environment"](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uJlTllziPI), a USENIX UCMS'13 presentation by Dinah McNutt
      * isolation:
          * ["CPI^2: CPU performance isolation for shared compute clusters"](http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/research.google.com/en/us/pubs/archive/40737.pdf)
          * ["NicPic: Scalable and Accurate End-Host Rate Limiting"](http://0b4af6cdc2f0c5998459-c0245c5c937c5dedcca3f1764ecc9b2f.r43.cf2.rackcdn.com/11555-hotcloud13-radhakrishnan.pdf)
      * build: the Google Engineering Tools 2011 "Build in the Cloud" blog series:
        * ["Accessing Source Code"](http://google-engtools.blogspot.com/2011/06/build-in-cloud-accessing-source-code.html)
        * ["How the Build System works"](http://google-engtools.blogspot.com/2011/08/build-in-cloud-how-build-system-works.html)
        * ["Distributing Build Steps"](http://google-engtools.blogspot.com/2011/09/build-in-cloud-distributing-build-steps.html)
        * ["Distributing Build Outputs"](http://google-engtools.blogspot.com/2011/10/build-in-cloud-distributing-build.html)

Sidenote: Google probably aren't using much of the regular Linux userland, are they?

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      * telemetry / log analysis: 
        * ["Dremel: Interactive Analysis of Web-Scale Datasets"](http://research.google.com/pubs/pub36632.html)
        * ["Interpreting the Data: Parallel Analysis with Sawzall"](http://research.google.com/archive/sawzall.html)
      * notification:
        * ["Thialfi"](http://research.google.com/pubs/pub37474.html)
      * storage:
          ["Percolator"](http://research.google.com/pubs/pub36726.html)

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