Brewing Microservices

We revisit serverless programming and the Nimbus paper by discussing the old timey computing that the state of serverless development reminds us of, as well as why all programming languages go through this experience as they grow, and what potential future directions for cloud computing might look like.

• Nimbus: Improving the Developer Experience for Serverless Applications
• Stop Writing Dead Programs (Strange Loop 2022)
• Punched Card (Wikipedia)
• Job Control Language (Wikipedia)
• IBM RPG (Wikipedia)
• Building Maintainable and Fault Tolerant MySQL Applications with Perl (Historical, Open Source Database Summit, Providence, RI, 2001)
• OpenTelemetry
• Honeycomb
• Log4Shell (Wikipedia)
• Zelle (Payment System)
• Cloud Programming Simplified: A Berkeley View on Serverless Computing
• Serverless Computing: Design, Implementation, and Performance
• Serverless Computing: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
• Unison (programming language)
• Erlang (programming language)
• Durable Functions 
• Toward Sustainable Serverless Computing
• Sustainability Efficiency Challenges of Modern IT Architectures - A Quality Model for Serverless Energy Footprint
• Understanding the Rust borrow checker 
• How to remote debug Azure functions
• XSLT (Wikipedia)
• Dataflow programming (Wikipedia)
• Hot code reloading with Erlang and rebar3
• Declarative programming (Wikipedia)
• DPL: A Language for GDPR Enforcement
• OTP Design Principles
• How To Avoid Cascading Failures in Distributed Systems
• The rr Debugger
• Introduction AMBROSIA: a new platform for reliable distributed applications without the hassle
• Time Travel Debugging
• Virtual Time
• Deterministic Replay: A Survey

Other notes:

• Chris got a new mic and wrote a theme song for the podcast so we aren't using a GarageBand loop anymore.

QuickCheck: a lightweight tool for random testing of Haskell programs

Soft Updates: A Technique for Eliminating Most Synchronous Writes in the Fast Filesystem

Write ahead log

Fuzzing: a survey

SAGE: whitebox fuzzing for security testing

Intelligent REST API data fuzzing

A hybrid analysis to detect Java serialisation vulnerabilities

Jsongen: a quickcheck based library for testing JSON web services

Property-Based Testing of JSON Based Web Services

Turning web services descriptions into quickcheck models for automatic testing

Hypothesis

Erlang QuickCheck

Software Testing with QuickCheck

John Hughes - Don't Write Tests

John Hughes - QuickCheck Evolution

John Hughes: Testing with QuickCheck

John Hughes - Testing the Hard Stuff and Staying Sane

John Hughes - How to specify it! A guide to writing properties of pure functions | Code Mesh LDN 19

Testing Eventual Consistency in Riak - YouTube

PARTISAN: Scaling the Distributed Actor Runtime

Dealing with a corrupt SSTable in Cassandra

MODELING EVENTUAL CONSISTENCY DATABASES WITH QUICKCHECK

Riak DT

Applied Monotonicity: A Brief History of CRDTs in Riak

Using temporal relations to specify and test an instant messaging server

Effective Concurrency Testing for Distributed Systems

Jepsen

Clojure test.check

PropER

PULSE tutorial

Finding race conditions in Erlang with QuickCheck and PULSE

CORFU: A Shared Log Design for Flash Clusters

CORFU: A distributed shared log

Nimbus: Improving the Developer Experience for Serverless Applications
Nimbus at ICSE
ICSE NIER CfP
Nimbus: Improving the Developer Experience for Serverless Applications [preprint]
Nimbus: Improving the Developer Experience for Serverless Applications [video]
Towards a Solution to the Red Wedding Problem
Reactive Machine [GitHub]
Durable functions: semantics for stateful serverless
Netherite: efficient execution of serverless workflows
Formal foundations of serverless computing
A Language-based Serverless Function Accelerator
Firecracker: Lightweight Virtualization for Serverless Applications
Serverless in the Wild: Characterizing and Optimizing the Serverless Workload at a Large Cloud Provider
Faa$T: A Transparent Auto-Scaling Cache for Serverless Applications
Palette Load Balancing: Locality Hints for Serverless Functions
Cold Start in Serverless Computing: Current Trends and Mitigation Strategies
Prebaking Functions to Warm the Serverless Cold Start
WLEC: A Not So Cold Architecture to Mitigate Cold Start Problem in Serverless Computing