Hi All, I'm taking a classic graduate course from MIT https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/ on my own (I'm not enrolled, just doing the course independently). There are 4 different labs in Go lang I plan to redo in Scala (MapReduce, Raft, Fault-tolerant Key/Value Service, Sharded Key/Value Service). There is also a bunch of lectures available on YouTube: https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/schedule.html. I would like to know if there is any interest in forming a study group to motivate each other to complete this course and work on the labs together. (Not necessarily in Scala/Go lang).
In terms of timeline, I'm starting right now. It's to get a head start on the official course schedule. Where it normally starts at the beginning of February and ends in late May.
The security manager can be disabled using reflection. If you don't allow you loose some libraries like Akka. The main thing that is missing from ScalaKata is autocompletion and it will be implemented in the summer during the GSOC. AWS lambda could be worth investigating. We don't expose an API for evaluating but others have expressed this need. Can you create an issue on GitHub for that?
Yeah disabling networking was an idea. I prefer to leave it open so you can try http client/libraries that access the web. To limit spam, if it becomes an issue we could throttle the connection.
It does and you are root. You are evaluating inside a docker container. It's not a bulletproof method but it will stop a few. The instances evaluating your code is also on a network not accessible from the internet. I'm not an expert in security, if you have any advice on how we can improve our defence please tell us.
In terms of timeline, I'm starting right now. It's to get a head start on the official course schedule. Where it normally starts at the beginning of February and ends in late May.