bpkroth blog

Welcome to my tiny Github Pages site. I’m using this site to host little blog articles on technie related things and whatnot.

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Recent Posts

  • Unikernels for DBs?

    Date: 2024-10-29

    Categories: Databases, Systems, Virtualization, Security, Performance

    Summary:

    Get out of my way, OS!

    I recently ran across this blog post about a talk by Andy Pavlo for the P99 conference (put together by the ScyllaDB folks).

    As an aside,...

  • Address Tagging

    Date: 2024-10-28

    Categories: Microarchitecture, Systems, Compilers, Learnings

    Summary:

    Address Tagging

    Today I learned about “Address Tagging”. Intel refers to this as Linear Address Masking (LAM). ARM refers to it as Top Byte Ignore (TBI). But in either case it roughly...

  • Epoch!

    Date: 2024-10-27

    Categories: General

    Summary:

    Epoch!

    This is my first post in a simple Github Pages site I’m using to host little blog articles on techie related things and whatnot.

    Check back from time to time for...

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