Stories by greghn

Building a new database management system in academia (2017)

Database Gyms [pdf]

Hello, Perceptron: An introduction to artificial neural networks

The dangers of conditional consistency guarantees

Software effort estimation is mostly fake research (2021)

Citogenesis in science and the importance of real problems

Creating a positive lab culture (2020)

GC for MVCC – MyRocks, InnoDB and Postgres

An explanation of the difference between Isolation levels vs. Consistency levels

Trying to speed up Binary Search (2015)

Expected Performance of a Bloom Filter

Parsing IP addresses crazily fast

Data-Oriented Transaction Execution (2010) [pdf]

Who Wins CS Best Paper Awards?

Fun with CHAR in SQL

Seven years in the life of Hypergiants' off-nets

The Four Month Bug: JVM statistics cause garbage collection pauses

SDN in the Stratosphere: Loon’s Aerospace Mesh Network

Are you sure you want to use MMAP in your database management system?

For systems, research is development and development is research

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