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…6 min read·Apr 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…4 min read·Jul 22, 2020--6--6
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…3 min read·Jul 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…10 min read·May 13, 2020--3--3
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…2 min read·Sep 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…4 min read·Jul 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…4 min read·Jul 5, 2017--5--5