I’ve been working with container networking a bunch this week. When learning about new unfamiliar stuff (like container networking / virtual ethernet devices / bridges / iptables), I often realize that I don’t fully understand something much more fundamen... (more…)

When I first learned about the Julia programming language, there were a few things that gave me the "wat" moments. One of those surprises involves both the naming and meaning of functions. (more…)

  Written in the productivity language Julia, the Celeste project—which aims to catalogue all of the telescope data for the stars and galaxies in in t... (more…)

Nearly 300 students join an open course that applies data science, artificial intelligence, and mathematical modeling using the Julia language to study Covid-19. (more…)

BPFTrace is an observability tool inspired by DTrace for Linux. It uses the eBPF infrastructure in the Linux kernel to implemented lightweight tracing of the kernel and applications. This note is written from a Linux perspective, but much of this should h... (more…)