- Review: Leases: An Efficient Fault-Tolerant Mechanism for Distributed File Cache Consistency
The 1989 paper that invented timed leases for consistency in distributed systems.
- Review: Exploiting a Natural Network Effect for Scalable, Finegrained Clock Synchronization
A 2018 paper with an algorithm to tightly synchronize clocks between servers, and measure one-way latency.
- Review: Nezha: Deployable and High-Performance Consensus Using Synchronized Clocks
A protocol like Fast Paxos, with some interesting optimizations.
- Sojourner
January 1, 2024. Our young Chinese dwarf hamster Sojourner.
- Bonticou Crag and Table Rocks
November 25, 2023. Hiking the Bonticou Crag and Table Rocks loop in the Gunks, upstate New York.
- Dickie Barre
December 1, 2023. Climbing with Jennifer in the Dickie Barre area of Peter's Kill, the Gunks.
- Village Zendo's Winter 2023 Meditation Retreat
Photos from our Zen retreat at Garrison Institute.
- Java Modelling Toolkit
My brief experience playing with a queue network simulator.
- West Trapps Bouldering
October 11, 2023. Boulderers in the West Trapps area of the Gunks.
- Fall in the Gunks
October 22, 2023. Warrior's Way Falling and Commitment, a one-day climbing class taught in the Gunks by Dustin Portzline.