A. Jesse Jiryu Davis

Category: Review

Review: Amazon MemoryDB: A Fast and Durable Memory-First Cloud Database AWS hacked up Redis to improve durability and consistency.
Review: Detock: High Performance Multi-region Transactions at Scale A deterministic DB based on Calvin and SLOG, optimized for geo-distributed transacations.
Review: Timestamp as a Service, not an Oracle A new distributed algorithm in a classic style: consensusless monotonic timestamps.
Review: Antipode: Enforcing Cross-Service Causal Consistency in Distributed Applications A 2023 paper about an interesting new consistency level for microservices.
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.
Java Modelling Toolkit My brief experience playing with a queue network simulator.
Review: Distributed Transactions at Scale in Amazon DynamoDB Classic algorithms updated for a modern cloud database.
Review: PolarDB-SCC: A Cloud-Native Database Ensuring Low Latency for Strongly Consistent Reads Alibaba's cloud-native SQL DB has a clever method for reading fresh data from secondaries.