A. Jesse Jiryu Davis
- Review: Scalable Leader Leases For Multi Consensus Groups in CockroachDB
A difficult paper about a real cloud database's complex and evolving architecture.
- LeaseGuard: The Movie
A half-hour talk about our enhancement to the Raft consensus protocol that strengthens Raft's consistency guarantees and time-to-recovery.
- Knowledge and Common Knowledge in a Distributed Environment, Part 3
In this episode, clock skew meets epistemic logic in a battle to the death!
- 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- YCSB Is Obsolete, We Need New Benchmarks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.