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Stop the Killing! (of video games that is)

Recently, there is much discussion and controvery for the practice of killing online video games — we discuss the issues and opposing camps

6d ago

Stop the Killing! (of video games that is)

6d ago

Moving on up with Scale-up

We discuss emerging, high performance, and open protocols for scale-up networking. Specifically, we look at CXL, UALink, and SUE.

Jul 7

Moving on up with Scale-up

Jul 7

A (mostly) Unbiased Review of the Ultra Ethernet Specification

We review the Ultra Ethernet Specification version 1.0.

Jun 30

A (mostly) Unbiased Review of the Ultra Ethernet Specification

Jun 30

Packet Buffers and pbufs: Wow, Less is More Yet Again!

Let’s talk packet buffers as packet metadata structures that describe one packet or fragment, and pbufs as highly compressed packet buffers

Jun 23

Packet Buffers and pbufs: Wow, Less is More Yet Again!

Jun 23

Mbufs, Skbuffs, et al.: The quest for a ubiquitous packet metadata structure

A packet metadata structure contains the information that describes a packet. We take a look at some of these structures in use.

Jun 16

Mbufs, Skbuffs, et al.: The quest for a ubiquitous packet metadata structure

Jun 16

Unraveling the Endianness Mess

We discuss endianness, how bytes are ordered to represent multi-byte numbers in computers, and the ramifications of different orderings

Jun 9

Unraveling the Endianness Mess

Jun 9

Common Computer Memory Gotchas

We discuss a number of common problems involving computer memory and memory allocators.

Jun 2

Common Computer Memory Gotchas

Jun 2

Object Allocators ᴙ Us

Object allocators are a very fast memory allocation technique appropriate in domain specific contexts where memory use is highly…

May 26

Object Allocators ᴙ Us

May 26

A Glimpse into Dynamic Memory Allocation

We discuss dynamic memory allocation and some of the underlying algorithms and strategies employed.

May 19

A Glimpse into Dynamic Memory Allocation

May 19

A Little Diddy About FIFO Flow Control (and Hello object allocators!)

We discuss FIFO flow control techniques for high efficiency. As a bonus, we introduce object allocators based on FIFOs.

May 12

A Little Diddy About FIFO Flow Control (and Hello object allocators!)

May 12

Tom Herbert

Tom Herbert

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I am an engineer, developer, and computer scientist with 25+ industry years experience building and deploying host networking at hyper scale.

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