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Fri Aug 29 10:00:00 CDT 2008

I need another project like a hole in the head.

Scott Davis had mentioned NetKernel in his RESTful talk. Then, I ran across the "shared libraries vs. statically linked libraries" debate with mentioned plan9. I've run across plan9 before.

NetKernel is a framework which seems to treat the key internals of your application as network resources, each identifiable with a URI. Where it can really start to pay off is in the caching. It is intriguing and I think about it whenever Clark mention he is working on XYZ on the map server.

plan9 is a research platform out of AT&T labs, the birth place of UNIX and many of the concepts in Linux. plan9 has some strange but intriguing approaches to solving computing problems.

I'm in a lull on the Performance and Reliability project. If I can find my next course of action while our instrumentation efforts cook up some data, I can get back on track.

Must not get sucked into any more strange research projects.