Stories by luu

Whitemark: Steganographic encoding of a watermark in the whitespace of text

Complexity budgets

Autopiper: automatic pipeline synthesis

Architecture of Stripe's MongoDB-Powered Event Processing System (2011) [video]

Dataflow computers: Their history and future (2008) [pdf]

File system replacement algorithms (2006)

The Manchester prototype dataflow computer (1985) [pdf]

Leaving Yahoo

An Evaluation of the TRIPS Computer System

Array Layouts for Comparison-Based Searching

Do you know how much your computer can do in a second?

How an F Student Became America’s Most Prolific Inventor

File system replacement algorithms (2006)

Jepsen: Distributed Systems Safety Analysis

Gammaplex Programming Language (2007)

Expanding the Queue Interface: Relaxed Queue Access

Google makes an aggressive move to steal Microsoft Office customers

Processor Utilization Difference Between IBM AIX and Linux on Power

IronFleet: Proving Practical Distributed Systems Correct [pdf]

I apparently got 50% better at my job last month