A. Jesse Jiryu Davis
- 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.
- Review: Leases: An Efficient Fault-Tolerant Mechanism for Distributed File Cache Consistency
The 1989 paper that invented timed leases for consistency in distributed systems.
- Review: Exploiting a Natural Network Effect for Scalable, Finegrained Clock Synchronization
A 2018 paper with an algorithm to tightly synchronize clocks between servers, and measure one-way latency.
- Review: Nezha: Deployable and High-Performance Consensus Using Synchronized Clocks
A protocol like Fast Paxos, with some interesting optimizations.