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Shivam Bharuka

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Shivam Bharuka writes The Knowledge Hodgepodge, a personal blog at shivambharuka.wordpress.com about systems and programming. Since 2017, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Arrakis, an OS design to provide high I/O performance to server applications”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.

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Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for its review of the Dune and IX systems papers, which covers the IX OS and its userspace network stack. The one comment only points to the review.

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Arrakis, an OS design to provide high I/O performance to server applications
    3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2017-10-25

What Hacker News says?

  1. The lead author, Adam Belay, worked on an OS, IX, as well which used Dune and implemented the network stack in the userspace. The paper is reviewed here: https://shivambharuka.wordpress.com/2017/10/19/ix-a-protecte... .

    Comment linking /2017/10/19/ix-a-protected-dataplane-operating-system-for-high-throughput-and-low-latency

    on “Dune: Safe User-Level Access to Privileged CPU Features”
  2. Submitted Dune: Safe User-Level Access to Privileged CPU Features as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Congestion Avoidance and Control as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Arrakis, an OS design to provide high I/O performance to server applications as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Arrakis, an OS design to provide high I/O performance to server applications as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted TCP Congestion Control and Avoidance as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Arrakis, an OS design to provide high I/O performance to server applications as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Dune: Safe User-Level Access to Privileged CPU Features as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted RPC Over RDMA as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted The Knowledge Hodgepodge as a story · 2 points

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  11. Submitted Data Center TCP as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Arrakis, an OS design to provide high I/O performance to server applications as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Arrakis, an OS design to provide high I/O performance to server applications as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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