A. Jesse Jiryu Davis
- Review: Nezha: Deployable and High-Performance Consensus Using Synchronized Clocks
A protocol like Fast Paxos, with some interesting optimizations.
- Java Modelling Tools
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.
- Review: Performance Modeling and Design of Computer Systems: Queueing Theory in Action
Two friends and I wrote a joint review of a math textbook.
- Review: SelfTune: Tuning Cluster Managers
A 2023 paper describing a simple system for automatically configuring auto-scaling and other aspects.
- 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.