Peter Bailis

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Before Sisu, I was an assistant professor of CS at Stanford, where I founded the DAWN project .

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Non-blocking transactional atomicity

2013136 points28 comments Databases & Data details

tl;dr: You can perform non-blocking multi-object atomic reads and writes across arbitrary data partitions via some simple multi-versioning and by storing metadata regarding related items.