Stories by luu

A comparative analysis of SQL-on-Hadoop systems for interactive analytics

The woes of incremental resource drains in big systems

The Parable of Ignac Semmelweiss

Literature Review: MDMA

Echo Chamber Incites Online Mob to Attack Math Profs

Evening Club Bridge Is Dying (2015)

What’s the difference between an integer and a pointer?

Dual Bagpipes

Today in Horrifying Systems

Understand and Eliminate JVM Warm-Up Overhead in Data-Parallel Systems (2016) [pdf]

The Infinity Machine (2017)

NCrunch: execute tests as you type

Bullshit Job Notes

Really Big Numbers (2015)

Realizability of Graphs (2008) [pdf]

LSM-SIM: simulation suite for DRAM-based web caches such as memcached

Debugging a 3D graphics bug in an emulator

Brute Force Incognito Browsing

Agglomeration effects might change the YIMBY calculus

The code cooperative