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Detecting Malware in encrypted https traffic

A fun paper from Cisco. Using a sandbox, they generate a large data set of connections from malware to the internet that uses https. They compare this with a set of https traffic data from an enterprise network (I assume Cisco’s!) and train a ML…

Reliable Cron Across the Planet

This paper by two Google engineers is a non-technical explanation of issues found in large scale distributed systems.

Starting with cron on a single machine, it nicely shows up the differences as a job runner is scaled out to a distributed system…