`folly::IOBuf` and zero-copy networking

I see folly::IOBuf often used as a return value (sub-)type in RPC definitions for data intensive and high performance applications. I looked at the code, and it says Well if it's used primarily for networking code, why do applications use it? I don't think people use sk_buff…

`ssh` to my workstation over Internet

I have eero at home with eero plus subscription as I like the parental controls. To my delight, the subscription also comes with DDNS. I wanted to set it up so I can ssh to my workstation from a laptop from our town library or a coffee shop. 1. Enabled…

IP as distributed data in the cloud

I previously wrote a post on reasoning DNS as a distributed database. In the same spirit, today, let's take a look at IP as distributed data (the Internet would be a distributed database in this analogy). This is inspired by a very interesting blog post from Cloudflare, https://blog.cloudflare.…