A. Jesse Jiryu Davis

Category: Review

Versions of The Eternaut A classic of Argentine sci-fi comics, now a Netflix series in Spanish.
Knowledge and Common Knowledge in a Distributed Environment, Part 2 Graph theory and epistemology, oh my!
Knowledge and Common Knowledge in a Distributed Environment, Part 1 A profound 1990 paper about epistemology in distributed systems.
Review: SwiftPaxos: Fast Geo-Replicated State Machines A complex consensus protocol for deployments with uneven network latencies.
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.