Stories by mad44

Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations and on Avoiding Distributed Consensus

Efficient state-machine-replication via timestamp stability

Layering Atomic Transactions on Facebook’s Online Tao Data Store (VLDB'21)

Clear Communication

Fivefold Synaesthesia, Solomon Shereshevsky (1886-1958)

Enlightenment Now (2019) by Steven Pinker

The FuzzyLog: A partially ordered shared log

Research, Writing, and Work Advice

Research, Writing, and Career Advice

Curiosity Driven Research

Learning about distributed systems: where to start?

Magic as a technology. Ra (novel) 2018

Exploiting Commutativity for Practical Fast Replication

Forty Book Recommendations

Vincent Van Gogh, Lust for Life

Slog: Serializable, low-latency, geo-replicated transactions

Scalog: Seamless Reconfiguration and Total Order in a Scalable Shared Log (2020)

Fine-Grained Replicated State Machines for a Cluster Storage System (NSDI 2020)

PigPaxos: Removing the Scalability Bottlenecks in Paxos

Book Review. Tiny Habits (2020) by BJ Fogg

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