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Since its inception 45 years ago, ;login: has served as a medium through which the USENIX community learns about useful tools, research, and events from one another. Beginning in 2021, ;login: is reimagined as an open access digital publication with increased opportunities for interactivity among authors and readers.

January 1, 2023

Kairux: Distributed System Fault Localization based on The Inflection Point Hypothesis

Authors: Yongle Zhang, Kirk Rodrigues, Yu Luo, Michael Stumm, Ding Yuan

Article shepherded by:

Rik Farrow

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December 15, 2022

Reliability Maturity Model

Learn about the reliability maturity of your organization from examples, as well as why maintaining the right level is important.

Authors: Vartika Agarwal, Tracy Ferrell

Article shepherded by:

Laura Nolan, Rik Farrow

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December 10, 2022

Fred Brooks as Mentor

Authors: Richard L. Sites

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Rik Farrow

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December 7, 2022

Why Health Checks are Like Sidewalks

What could be simpler than a health check? The humble health check is the nexus of a complex set of orchestration processes in modern systems. Laura Nolan describes their pitfalls.

Authors: Laura Nolan

Article shepherded by:

Rik Farrow

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November 20, 2022

Trailblazer

The autobiography of Mary Ann Horton, member of the original BSD team and transgender activist

Authors: Thomas A. Limoncelli

Article shepherded by:

Rik Farrow

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November 10, 2022

SLOs and GHGs

Learn how to measure the carbon emissions of your software using service-level objectives and reduce the impact your system has on the planet.

Authors: Bill Johnson

Article shepherded by:

Rik Farrow

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November 3, 2022

Oncall: An Equal-Opportunity Waste of Time

Dave O'Connor engages in some spirited book-ripping about how we staff oncall teams.

Authors: Dave O'Connor

Article shepherded by:

Laura Nolan

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November 2, 2022

Untangling the Cloud

Draw technical borders to divide your cloud resources into groupings that follow the logical boundaries of your systems and your organization.

Authors: Joshua Fox

Article shepherded by:

Laura Nolan

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October 27, 2022

LISA made LISA obsolete (That's a compliment!)

My memories (good and bad) of the USENIX LISA conference.

Authors: Thomas A. Limoncelli

Article shepherded by:

Rik Farrow

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