Serverless Redux: Halloween Edition

Show Notes

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.

Creators & Guests

Host

Christopher Meiklejohn

Christopher is a Ph.D. candidate in Software Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Before starting his Ph.D., he worked on a variety of distributed systems at Basho Technologies, Mesosphere, and Machine Zone.

Host

David Justo

David is a software engineer at Microsoft in the Azure Functions group. He is mostly focused on the multi-language experience for Durable Functions, where he gets to put on his PL hat to annoy his co-workers with requests to add support for Haskell. Before joining Microsoft, he was an MS student at UC San Diego, where he did research on Programming Languages and Databases.

Guest

David "Bear Feeder" Pollak - @[e-mail]

Dad to twins, he/him, @snyksec, @liftweb founder, @ricnews & @bu_law alum, ex @CiscoSecure, learned to be kinder from @archer_dog LLAP. opinions my own

Guest

Scott L. Fritchie

Jack-of-many bit-centric trades, many of them Erlang- or Elixir-flavored with a splash of Pony.

What is Brewing Microservices?

A podcast discussing everything cloud computing, serverless, microservices, and distributed systems that, each episode, starts with a discussion of a single academic paper and expands out to related academic research and industrial products and systems.