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• TLA from First Principles

  by mad44 on 10/22/2024, 5:59 PM with 0 comments

• Best of 2023 in MuratBuffalo Distributed/Database Systems Blog

  by mad44 on 12/11/2023, 2:23 PM with 0 comments

• by mad44 on 12/11/2023, 2:17 PM with comments

• Epoxy: Acid Transactions Across Diverse Data Stores (VLDB'23)

  by mad44 on 11/15/2023, 4:16 PM with 0 comments

• by mad44 on 10/18/2023, 1:58 PM with comments

• Hints for Distributed Systems Design (2023)

  by mad44 on 10/2/2023, 2:00 PM with 0 comments

• How I Learn a Technical Subject

  by mad44 on 8/25/2023, 3:41 PM with 0 comments

• Detock: High Performance Multi-Region Transactions at Scale (Sigmod 2023)

  by mad44 on 7/13/2023, 9:36 PM with 0 comments

• New Directions in Cloud Computing

  by mad44 on 5/17/2023, 12:54 PM with 0 comments

• Aries: A Transaction Recovery Method W Fine-Granularity Locking and Rollbacks

  by mad44 on 4/6/2023, 5:33 PM with 0 comments

• Characterizing Microservice Dependency and Performance: Alibaba Trace Analysis

  by mad44 on 3/13/2023, 3:34 PM with 0 comments

• Is Scalable OLTP in the Cloud a Solved Problem? (CIDR 2023)

  by mad44 on 1/24/2023, 7:57 PM with 0 comments

• Best of Metadata Blog in 2022

  by mad44 on 12/22/2022, 3:23 PM with 0 comments

• Noria: Dynamic, partially-stateful Rust dataflow for high-performance web apps

  by mad44 on 12/15/2022, 4:09 PM with 0 comments

• by mad44 on 12/15/2022, 2:25 PM with comments

• Silicon innovation and custom ASICs at Amazon [pdf]

  by mad44 on 11/8/2022, 6:33 PM with 36 comments

• Fast Serializable Multi-Version Concurrency Control for Database Systems

  by mad44 on 8/23/2022, 5:21 PM with 0 comments

• The Seattle report on database research (2022)

  by mad44 on 7/26/2022, 2:09 AM with 0 comments

• A Client-Centric Specification of Database Isolation

  by mad44 on 6/16/2022, 5:36 PM with 0 comments

• Antifragility from an Engineering Perspective

  by mad44 on 5/18/2022, 1:33 PM with 0 comments

• Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations and on Avoiding Distributed Consensus

  by mad44 on 3/21/2022, 5:17 PM with 0 comments

• Efficient state-machine-replication via timestamp stability

  by mad44 on 2/16/2022, 7:59 PM with 0 comments

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

  by mad44 on 2/4/2022, 4:04 PM with 0 comments

• Clear Communication

  by mad44 on 1/15/2022, 5:25 PM with 0 comments

• Fivefold Synaesthesia, Solomon Shereshevsky (1886-1958)

  by mad44 on 7/19/2020, 3:45 PM with 0 comments

• Enlightenment Now (2019) by Steven Pinker

  by mad44 on 6/29/2020, 3:30 PM with 0 comments

• The FuzzyLog: A partially ordered shared log

  by mad44 on 6/28/2020, 6:39 PM with 0 comments

• Research, Writing, and Work Advice

  by mad44 on 6/28/2020, 2:20 PM with 0 comments

• by mad44 on 6/28/2020, 1:44 PM with comments

• Research, Writing, and Career Advice

  by mad44 on 6/15/2020, 5:47 PM with 0 comments

• Curiosity Driven Research

  by mad44 on 6/14/2020, 7:28 PM with 0 comments

• Learning about distributed systems: where to start?

  by mad44 on 6/11/2020, 3:43 PM with 0 comments

• Magic as a technology. Ra (novel) 2018

  by mad44 on 6/7/2020, 6:26 PM with 0 comments

• Exploiting Commutativity for Practical Fast Replication

  by mad44 on 6/6/2020, 1:42 PM with 0 comments

• Forty Book Recommendations

  by mad44 on 6/3/2020, 2:48 PM with 0 comments

• Vincent Van Gogh, Lust for Life

  by mad44 on 6/1/2020, 5:09 PM with 0 comments

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

  by mad44 on 5/23/2020, 6:28 PM with 0 comments

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

  by mad44 on 4/28/2020, 3:34 PM with 0 comments

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

  by mad44 on 4/17/2020, 3:11 PM with 6 comments

• by mad44 on 4/8/2020, 5:41 PM with comments

• PigPaxos: Removing the Scalability Bottlenecks in Paxos

  by mad44 on 3/18/2020, 2:17 PM with 20 comments

• Book Review. Tiny Habits (2020) by BJ Fogg

  by mad44 on 2/17/2020, 4:19 PM with 1 comments

• Cross-Chain Deals and Adversarial Commerce

  by mad44 on 1/19/2020, 9:35 PM with 1 comments

• Future of Work – Microsoft faculty summit 2019

  by mad44 on 1/19/2020, 7:15 PM with 0 comments

• Every tool is a hammer: Life is what you make it (Adam Savage, 2019)

  by mad44 on 1/16/2020, 5:57 PM with 0 comments

• Cross-Chain Deals and Adversarial Commerce

  by mad44 on 12/29/2019, 6:08 PM with 0 comments

• The HotStuff BFT Consensus Protocol in Facebook's Libra Project

  by mad44 on 12/27/2019, 2:09 PM with 0 comments

• by mad44 on 3/28/2019, 7:31 PM with comments

• Sharding the Shards: Managing Datastore Locality in Facebook at Scale with Akkio

  by mad44 on 2/14/2019, 9:28 PM with 0 comments

• An Empirical Study on Crash Recovery Bugs in Large-Scale Distributed Systems

  by mad44 on 1/9/2019, 6:32 PM with 1 comments

• Master your questioning skills

  by mad44 on 12/17/2018, 6:18 PM with 0 comments

• Azure Cosmos DB

  by mad44 on 8/7/2018, 8:19 PM with 0 comments

• Blockchain consensus explained from a Paxos perspective

  by mad44 on 3/23/2018, 1:11 PM with 0 comments

• by mad44 on 3/22/2018, 11:44 AM with comments

• by mad44 on 2/21/2018, 4:50 PM with comments

• Paper review: IPFS – Content addressed, versioned, P2P file system

  by mad44 on 2/21/2018, 4:44 PM with 108 comments

• Best of 2017 in MuratBuffalo

  by mad44 on 12/29/2017, 5:27 PM with 0 comments

• On dataflow systems, Naiad and Tensorflow

  by mad44 on 11/29/2017, 7:25 PM with 0 comments

• Realtime Data Processing at Facebook

  by mad44 on 7/9/2016, 8:56 PM with 7 comments

• Google TensorFlow: A system for large-scale machine learning

  by mad44 on 6/3/2016, 6:01 PM with 0 comments

• How does Facebook manage 1000+ config changes a day? Config as code approach

  by mad44 on 2/8/2016, 4:11 PM with 1 comments

• by mad44 on 2/4/2016, 8:17 PM with comments

• Paper review: TensorFlow, Machine Learning on Heterogeneous Distributed Systems

  by mad44 on 1/11/2016, 7:56 PM with 22 comments

• Hack-a-paper: How to run effective paper reading group meetings

  by mad44 on 5/8/2015, 2:10 PM with 0 comments

• by mad44 on 4/23/2015, 1:42 PM with comments

• Facebook's Mystery Machine: End-To-end Performance Analysis of Internet Services

  by mad44 on 3/31/2015, 5:41 PM with 0 comments

• by mad44 on 3/26/2015, 3:15 PM with comments

• Salt: Combining ACID and BASE in a Distributed Database

  by mad44 on 3/2/2015, 6:16 PM with 1 comments

• Perspectives on the CAP theorem

  by mad44 on 2/12/2015, 5:22 PM with 0 comments

• Google Cloud Messaging (GCM): An Evaluation

  by mad44 on 11/24/2014, 7:55 PM with 0 comments

• The Scalable Commutativity Rule

  by mad44 on 11/3/2014, 7:30 PM with 5 comments

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

  by mad44 on 11/3/2014, 6:39 PM with 0 comments

• Distributed is not necessarily more scalable than centralized

  by mad44 on 10/13/2014, 7:05 PM with 20 comments

• Panoramic pictures analogy for consistent distributed snapshots

  by mad44 on 10/9/2014, 5:32 PM with 0 comments

• Tango: Distributed Data Structures Over a Shared Log

  by mad44 on 10/6/2014, 4:47 PM with 3 comments

• BookKeeper: High-availability scalable distributed logging

  by mad44 on 10/3/2014, 12:32 PM with 2 comments

• ZooKeeper: Wait-free coordination for Internet-scale systems

  by mad44 on 9/29/2014, 2:37 PM with 9 comments

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

  by mad44 on 8/16/2013, 3:05 PM with 0 comments

• How I read a research paper

  by mad44 on 7/26/2013, 4:25 PM with 0 comments

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

  by mad44 on 7/4/2013, 7:16 PM with 0 comments

• My Advice to My Graduate Students

  by mad44 on 5/1/2013, 1:29 PM with 0 comments

• The idempotence monad for adding fault-tolerance to distributed applications

  by mad44 on 4/27/2013, 2:44 PM with 1 comments

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

  by mad44 on 4/26/2013, 7:44 PM with 0 comments

• Notes from AWS Summit NYC

  by mad44 on 4/21/2013, 4:33 PM with 0 comments

• The science of productivity

  by mad44 on 1/10/2013, 2:52 PM with 1 comments

• Obama's data-driven tactic for campaigning

  by mad44 on 11/7/2012, 7:26 PM with 0 comments

• by mad44 on 10/17/2012, 3:21 PM with comments

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

  by mad44 on 10/17/2012, 3:53 AM with 3 comments

• Building fault-tolerant applications on AWS

  by mad44 on 10/17/2012, 12:43 AM with 0 comments

• Why interacting with woman leave man cognitively impaired?

  by mad44 on 10/9/2012, 2:03 PM with 0 comments

• Disney Research Interactive Plant Technology

  by mad44 on 8/14/2012, 11:51 AM with 0 comments

• Crowdsourced line wait-time forecasting of coffee shops using smartphones

  by mad44 on 8/8/2012, 10:29 PM with 0 comments

• Electrical brain stimulation

  by mad44 on 4/1/2012, 2:36 PM with 0 comments

• Pat Helland on NoSQL: "Life beyond distributed transactions"

  by mad44 on 3/6/2012, 9:24 AM with 0 comments

• Jeff Bezos, Ted 2003

  by mad44 on 1/25/2012, 3:39 PM with 1 comments

• Metadata: Tell me about your thought-process, not just your results

  by mad44 on 1/11/2012, 2:57 PM with 0 comments

• by mad44 on 12/23/2011, 10:07 AM with comments

• SOSP 2011 — Proceedings, with full access to papers

  by mad44 on 10/26/2011, 4:13 PM with 0 comments

• Philip Zimbardo: The demise of guys? (video)

  by mad44 on 8/5/2011, 7:14 PM with 0 comments

• Refuse to Crash with Re-FUSE

  by mad44 on 5/31/2011, 8:38 PM with 0 comments

• On designing and deploying Internet scale services

  by mad44 on 5/31/2011, 8:38 PM with 0 comments

• Life beyond Distributed Transactions: an Apostate's Opinion

  by mad44 on 4/23/2011, 6:02 PM with 0 comments

• Entreposeurs - Sincerity is the key. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.

  by mad44 on 3/29/2011, 8:31 PM with 2 comments

• Twttr stories - Jack Dorsey: I build products by writing stories

  by mad44 on 3/14/2011, 12:07 AM with 0 comments

• Megastore: Providing scalable, highly available storage for interactive services

  by mad44 on 3/12/2011, 7:04 PM with 1 comments

• Deb Roy: The birth of a word | Indexing the social network with wordscape

  by mad44 on 3/10/2011, 6:39 PM with 0 comments

• Summary: Sinfonia, A New Paradigm for Building Scalable Distributed Systems

  by mad44 on 3/6/2011, 4:11 PM with 1 comments

• Seeing the Past 02/28/2011

  by mad44 on 2/28/2011, 4:51 PM with 0 comments

• PNUTS: Yahoo's hosted data serving platform

  by mad44 on 2/24/2011, 1:59 PM with 0 comments

• Chain replication for supporting high throughput and availability

  by mad44 on 2/19/2011, 10:16 PM with 0 comments

• SEDA: An architecture for well-conditioned scalable Internet services

  by mad44 on 2/19/2011, 10:14 PM with 0 comments

• Lessons from giant-scale services

  by mad44 on 2/6/2011, 10:56 PM with 0 comments

• Susan Wojcicki: The most important Googler you've never heard of

  by mad44 on 2/6/2011, 6:31 PM with 13 comments

• Freedom of Data 01/24/2011

  by mad44 on 1/24/2011, 5:01 PM with 0 comments

• Performance Enhancing Beards | Fantasy Baseball 101

  by mad44 on 1/16/2011, 5:06 PM with 0 comments

• The Value of Ritual in Your Workday - Peter Bregman - Harvard Business Review

  by mad44 on 1/12/2011, 7:19 PM with 0 comments

• Case for RAMClouds: Scalable High-Performance Storage Entirely in DRAM

  by mad44 on 12/24/2010, 4:41 PM with 0 comments

• Finding a Needle in Haystack: Facebook's Photo Storage

  by mad44 on 12/17/2010, 8:01 PM with 0 comments

• Hypergraphia: Optimistic Replication

  by mad44 on 12/2/2010, 3:18 PM with 0 comments

• How can we get research out of the Ivory Tower and into production?

  by mad44 on 7/22/2010, 7:00 PM with 0 comments

• Comments on the iPad in Academic Settings

  by mad44 on 5/24/2010, 1:44 AM with 1 comments

• What Happened to Africa in 2003?

  by mad44 on 5/22/2010, 6:42 PM with 1 comments

• The Attention Contest 05/18/2010

  by mad44 on 5/18/2010, 3:47 PM with 0 comments

• Unifying Isolated Sensor Systems Using Web 2.0

  by mad44 on 5/13/2010, 3:19 PM with 0 comments

• Adobe software shamefully, frustratingly incompetent

  by mad44 on 4/30/2010, 2:47 AM with 6 comments

• Reading Online

  by mad44 on 2/17/2010, 4:46 PM with 12 comments

• Writing hack: Ventilated Prose « A Programmers Place

  by mad44 on 2/17/2010, 4:42 PM with 0 comments

• Should automobile software be open-sourced?

  by mad44 on 2/6/2010, 4:36 AM with 1 comments

• George Whitesides: A lab the size of a postage stamp (video)

  by mad44 on 2/4/2010, 9:24 PM with 0 comments

• Vote for Barbie to be a computer engineer (Encourage diversity)

  by mad44 on 1/11/2010, 9:10 PM with 25 comments

• You should approach the radical novelty with a blank mind, instead of analogies

  by mad44 on 1/11/2010, 3:34 PM with 1 comments

• Foldit: new computer game enabling you to contribute to scientific research

  by mad44 on 12/28/2009, 2:45 AM with 0 comments

• Seven Computer Science Game-Changers from the 2000’s, and Seven More to Come

  by mad44 on 12/28/2009, 2:27 AM with 3 comments

• Secret history of Silicon Valley

  by mad44 on 12/24/2009, 7:49 PM with 0 comments

• Open Decision-Making

  by mad44 on 12/14/2009, 4:37 AM with 0 comments

• Startup Company Culture

  by mad44 on 12/14/2009, 4:34 AM with 0 comments

• by mad44 on 9/25/2009, 2:24 AM with comments

• Calendar as Filter

  by mad44 on 5/8/2009, 7:37 PM with 8 comments

• Advising Students for Success

  by mad44 on 3/20/2009, 8:09 PM with 4 comments

• On systems design by Jim Waldo (2007)

  by mad44 on 3/16/2009, 2:38 PM with 0 comments

• Afghan tech boom: Mullah embraces iPhone

  by mad44 on 3/5/2009, 3:26 PM with 0 comments

• A Sketchy Brain Booster: Doodling

  by mad44 on 2/27/2009, 3:06 AM with 0 comments

• The Human Brain - Stress

  by mad44 on 2/27/2009, 12:31 AM with 0 comments

• CEO: Nokia Considers Entering Laptop Industry

  by mad44 on 2/26/2009, 8:38 PM with 12 comments

• Walk Like Us: 1.5 Million-Year-Old Footprints Look Modern

  by mad44 on 2/26/2009, 8:37 PM with 0 comments

• Google blames Gmail outage on data centre collapse

  by mad44 on 2/26/2009, 2:05 AM with 0 comments

• Scientists Exploit Bacterial Laziness to Beat Disease

  by mad44 on 2/19/2009, 6:40 PM with 0 comments

• Will the Internet Doom the Planet?

  by mad44 on 2/19/2009, 4:18 PM with 1 comments

• Adobe software shamefully, frustratingly incompetent

  by mad44 on 2/18/2009, 3:18 PM with 87 comments

• iPods and Kindles as public-domain knowledge disseminators

  by mad44 on 2/18/2009, 3:08 PM with 0 comments

• Armando Fox » Scaling Ruby on Rails

  by mad44 on 2/18/2009, 3:05 PM with 0 comments

• Training Humans

  by mad44 on 2/18/2009, 2:55 PM with 5 comments

• Slashdot | Facebook Scrambles To Contain ToS Fallout

  by mad44 on 2/18/2009, 4:42 AM with 4 comments

• 41% of museums don't know how dogs actually walk

  by mad44 on 2/17/2009, 4:29 PM with 2 comments

• Quality Follows Popularity

  by mad44 on 2/13/2009, 3:43 PM with 9 comments

• In Mozambique, Rats Make Good Mine Detectors

  by mad44 on 2/12/2009, 8:48 PM with 0 comments

• iPhone Push Notification Server tied to Snow Leopard Server

  by mad44 on 2/12/2009, 5:40 PM with 0 comments

• CSI Scandinavia: Computer Dissects Cadavers With No Scalpel

  by mad44 on 2/12/2009, 3:53 PM with 0 comments

• Stimulus by Leadership

  by mad44 on 2/11/2009, 5:48 PM with 0 comments

• Hacker style versus the Dijkstra style

  by mad44 on 2/11/2009, 4:31 PM with 33 comments

• Google Sync Keeps Contacts and Calendars in Sync on Your Mobile Phone

  by mad44 on 2/9/2009, 7:06 PM with 1 comments

• Typing Genius defies Apple, introduces Emoji support

  by mad44 on 2/9/2009, 5:07 PM with 0 comments

• Dance show for Apple co-founder

  by mad44 on 2/9/2009, 2:51 PM with 1 comments

• Professor makes his mark, but it costs him his job

  by mad44 on 2/6/2009, 8:46 PM with 42 comments

• A pair of links about Ira Glass

  by mad44 on 2/4/2009, 5:22 PM with 0 comments

• Black swan author's rules for living

  by mad44 on 2/4/2009, 4:12 PM with 0 comments

• Scott Adams Blog: What's Wrong With the Economy

  by mad44 on 2/3/2009, 5:09 PM with 7 comments

• Time lapse of a baby playing with his toys

  by mad44 on 1/29/2009, 2:45 AM with 0 comments

• I Am Here: One Man's Experiment With the Location-Aware Lifestyle

  by mad44 on 1/23/2009, 8:04 PM with 0 comments

• The physics arXiv blog: Black holes from the LHC could survive for minutes

  by mad44 on 1/23/2009, 4:42 PM with 0 comments

• Begley: Was Darwin Wrong About Evolution? | Newsweek Voices - Sharon Begley | Newsweek.com

  by mad44 on 1/23/2009, 4:38 PM with 1 comments

• Scott Adams Blog: iPhone Baby Application 01/12/2009

  by mad44 on 1/12/2009, 6:15 PM with 0 comments

• Scott Adams Blog: Testing the Illusion Hypothesis 01/05/2009

  by mad44 on 1/5/2009, 10:25 PM with 0 comments

• My new year's resolution is to email my 15 months old son daily

  by mad44 on 12/29/2008, 3:49 PM with 37 comments

• ‘Bush Shoe’ Gives Firm a Footing in the Market

  by mad44 on 12/22/2008, 6:43 PM with 0 comments

• Wouldn't it be nice to have "Automator" for iPhone?

  by mad44 on 11/24/2008, 3:33 PM with 1 comments

• Black holes are the rhythm at the heart of galaxies

  by mad44 on 11/19/2008, 1:55 PM with 1 comments

• Comment on my 10^100 submission: Reddit on cellphones for geotagging interesting news

  by mad44 on 9/28/2008, 4:33 PM with 2 comments

• 10^100: Google calls for ideas to change the world by helping as many people as possible.

  by mad44 on 9/25/2008, 5:58 PM with 6 comments