Tony AllenThoughts on Tenant Isolation and Load SheddingI spend a fair bit of time these days thinking about overloaded servers and one recent problem I’ve wrestled with is how to shed load…Apr 5, 2021Apr 5, 2021
Tony AllenWho gets invited to the party?It should be obvious to everyone at this point that the tech industry has a diversity problem. Lots of folks have written about this, but…Jul 22, 20206Jul 22, 20206
Tony AllenLocal Experimentation with EnvoyI recently helped some colleagues debug an issue with the Envoy fault filter. They remarked that I have a powerful local testing setup, so…Jul 14, 2020Jul 14, 2020
Tony AlleninEnvoy ProxyExamining Load Balancing Algorithms with EnvoyIf you deal with networked systems you probably care a lot about latency. It’s also likely that you’ll be faced with a decision of which…May 13, 20203May 13, 20203
Tony AllenIt Matters How You Initialize C ArraysI’ll start this off by saying I’m not a C developer. I mostly use C++. However, this did not stop me from zealously offering to help a…Sep 19, 2019Sep 19, 2019
Tony AllenTechnically Speaking: We Can do BetterAs engineers, we place a lot of emphasis on the efficiency of the things we build. That’s great, really, there’s nothing like reading…Jul 21, 2019Jul 21, 2019
Tony AlleninHackerNoon.comCounting Bloom Filter in C++I recently ran across this bloom filter post by Michael Schmatz and it inspired me to write about a neat variation on the bloom filter that…Jul 5, 20175Jul 5, 20175