A. Jesse Jiryu Davis

Tag: distributedsystems

Review: Rethink the Linearizability Constraints of Raft for Distributed Systems Some worthwhile Raft enhancements and some mistakes. Caveat lector.
YCSB Is Obsolete, We Need New Benchmarks Closed loop benchmarks are too polite, they don't push systems past their limits.
LeaseGuard: Raft Leases Done Right! A new Raft enhancement for fast, consistent reads.
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.
From Python Programmer to Distributed Systems Researcher in 10 Years Without a PhD How I wound up on MongoDB's research team.
Can We Rely On Timers For Distributed Algorithms? I think the answer is yes, and I calculate the worst-case drift.
How Long Must I Test? How to calculate the efficiency of nondeterministic tests, and how to decide when to stop.
Review: SwiftPaxos: Fast Geo-Replicated State Machines A complex consensus protocol for deployments with uneven network latencies.
Predictive Scaling in MongoDB Atlas, an Experiment At MongoDB, we experimented to see if we could predict each DBaaS customer's demand fluctuations, and auto-scale them using this foreknowledge.