- How I Write a Related Work Section with Zotero and Overleaf
The worst part of writing a research paper, made less bad.
- Can We Rely On Timers For Distributed Algorithms?
I think the answer is yes, and I calculate the worst-case drift.
- Predictive Scaling in MongoDB Atlas, an Experiment
At MongoDB, we experimented to see if we could predict each DBaaS customer's demand fluctuations, and auto-scale them using this foreknowledge.
- Paper Review: C5: Cloned Concurrency Control that Always Keeps Up
A multicore replication algorithm.
- Notes from HPTS 2022
I attended my first High Performance Transaction Systems conference, here are my messy inaccurate notes.
- Paper Review: E-Store, P-Store, and Elastic Database Systems
A PhD thesis and two papers about reactive and predictive autoscaling.
- Paper Review: 1Pipe
A super-low latency protocol with causal consistency and total order, for cutting-edge data centers.
- Paper review: Scaling Large Production Clusters with Partitioned Synchronization
A clever algorithm for reducing conflicts in a distributed task scheduler.
- Paper review: Strong and Efficient Consistency with Consistency-Aware Durability
Don't wait for data to be durable when you write it, wait before you read.
- Paper review: Paxos vs Raft
Which consensus algorithm will win?