A. Jesse Jiryu Davis

Tag: distributedsystems

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.
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.
How To Use MongoDB Causal Consistency The missing manual for a useful MongoDB feature.
Review: Antipode: Enforcing Cross-Service Causal Consistency in Distributed Applications A 2023 paper about an interesting new consistency level for microservices.