Stories by mad44

Perspectives on the CAP theorem

Google Cloud Messaging (GCM): An Evaluation

The Scalable Commutativity Rule

Chain Replication: High-throughput strong-consistent replication (2011)

Distributed is not necessarily more scalable than centralized

Panoramic pictures analogy for consistent distributed snapshots

Tango: Distributed Data Structures Over a Shared Log

BookKeeper: High-availability scalable distributed logging

ZooKeeper: Wait-free coordination for Internet-scale systems

Writing the hacker's way: Mess up; Tidy up

How I read a research paper

The role of TrueTime in Spanner, Google's globally distributed database

My Advice to My Graduate Students

The idempotence monad for adding fault-tolerance to distributed applications

Attacking Generals and Buridan's Ass, or How did the chicken cross the road?

Notes from AWS Summit NYC

The science of productivity

Obama's data-driven tactic for campaigning

Startup idea: auto-dropboxify all web/url shared documents

Building fault-tolerant applications on AWS

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