Blog Name -> Dirty Slate Design
So after a few months of (occasional) posts, we finally decided to give the blog a name.
Dirty Slate Design reflects a design philosophy for systems and networking research, where deployability is a central goal. While it’s often tempting to try to solve problems by wiping the slate clean and starting afresh, expecting a complete redesign and redeployment of systems as important, complex, and far-flung as the Web or the Internet is rather optimistic at best.
So, rather than implying something that is just “quick and dirty,” this philosophy tries to push new functionality or designs in a way that can be … Continue Reading