My PyCon 2023 talk about using databases safely.
A 1994 paper describing how to bring a distributed system to a known state.
Some two-phase commit optimizations for cloud storage.
For now, I'm donating to GiveWell Top Charities Fund.
A Paxos variant that speeds up linearizable reads in geo-distributed clusters.
Photos from our Zen retreat at Garrison Institute.
Faster replication through the magic of partial order.
December 18, 2022. Jo An, Keishin, and Ruby the dog practicing at the New Paltz Zen Center in upstate New York.
Back to work after 8 months of climbing.