Stories by mark4

Do you think I am a goldfish?

Best of Metadata in 2025

Taurus MM: A Cloud-Native Shared-Storage Multi-Master Database

Taurus Database: How to Be Fast, Available, and Frugal in the Cloud

Practical Diff Testing of Stateful Applications (VLDB'25)

Master Your Questioning Skills

Neurosymbolic AI: Why, What, and How

Real Life Is Uncertain. Consensus Should Be Too

Rapid Prototyping a Safe, Logless Reconfiguration Protocol for MongoDB with TLA+

Cedar: A New Language for Expressive, Fast, Safe, and Analyzable Authorization

Publish and Perish: Why Ponder Stibbons Left the Ivory Tower

What Makes Entrepreneurs Entrepreneurial?

Best of 2024 in Metadata blog (distributed/database systems)

Auto-WLM: machine learning enhanced workload management in Amazon Redshift(2023)

High Performance Transaction Systems 2024, Day 1

FlexiRaft: Flexible Quorums with Raft in Meta's MySQL Deployments

AWS DynamoDB: A Scalable, Predictably Performant, Managed NoSQL Database (2022)

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Best of Metadata in 2021