A. Jesse Jiryu Davis
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Review: Distributed Reset
A 1994 paper describing how to bring a distributed system to a known state.
Review: Cornus: Atomic Commit for a Cloud DBMS with Storage Disaggregation
Some two-phase commit optimizations for cloud storage.
Review: Paxos Quorum Leases: Fast Reads Without Sacrificing Writes
A Paxos variant that speeds up linearizable reads in geo-distributed clusters.
Paper Review: Rex: Replication at the Speed of Multi-core
Faster replication through the magic of partial order.
Paper Review: Programming as Theory Building
Peter Naur (of Backus-Naur form) wrote that programmers' main job is not coding, but building a theory of the problem and solution.
Review: The Scout Mindset
Julia Galef's book points out the dangers of motivated reasoning, and encourages us to be skeptical of ourselves.
Reading A Journal of the Plague Year in New York
Daniel Defoe's account of London in 1665 is eerily like New York in 2020.
The Antihero of Silicon Valley: My Review of "Steve Jobs"
Americans love an asshole, if he's a winner. My review of the "Steve Jobs" movie on Shambhala Sun's website.
Review of "Write Great Code, Volumes 1 and 2"
An unfinished work, good but not great.
Review of "Autotools: A Practitioner's Guide"
Not a fun read, but it tackles a tough job and fulfills its duty with honor.
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