A. Jesse Jiryu Davis

Category: Review

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.
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.