[new blog post] Research, writing, and career advice.

^@willyjschultz.

Rapid Prototyping a Safe, Logless Reconfiguration Protocol for MongoDB with TLA+ | MongoDB Blog.(Will Schultz and Siyuan Zhou).

[new blog post]. Chapter 7: Distributed Recovery (Concurrency Control Book).

Tupac?? Is wikipedia trolling me?.First time I am hearing 2PC referred to as Tupac.

Pasha is living his best life. Taking naps, going for walks to visit his friends in the neighborhood, and taking good care of us and himself. He taught me a lot.

RT @debasishg: Weekend paper reading . an alternate way to reason about transaction isolation. Based on observable states in applications….

RT @debasishg: Paper: Blog Post:

Nothing quite like a good cup of coffee!.

RT @AnimaAnandkumar: Thank you @Caltech for including me in the history of AI. It starts with Carver Mead, John Hopfield and Richard Feynma….

Honoring the American tradition: having a garage sale.

[new blog post]. Analyzing Metastable Failures in Distributed Systems.

RT @FranckPachot: I warned against write amplification when PostgreSQL is misused as a document database. Another issue to consider is read….

[new blog post]. Chapter 6: Centralized Recovery (Concurrency Control Book).

RT @MarcJBrooker: New blog post, about some of my favorite papers from this year's HotOS program. Love Little's law? Hate fork? Think stati….

RT @liamzebedee: murat what an amazing writer, blessed to have him .

RT @paulg: It turns out that the University of Austin isn't committed to free speech after all. If you write a post that offends a big dono….

RT @DistribSystems: Learning about distributed systems: where to start?.A principled, from the foundations-up, stud….

Using LLMs is like talking to a rubber duck. Except this duck talks back, knows everything, writes like lightning, and (in my case) codes better than I do.

Holy moly! When did my blog pass the 5 million pageviews mark.