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For thirty years I programmed with Phish on, every day
For thirty years I programmed with Phish on, every day. In 2026, the music is out of phase with the work.
Christopher Meiklejohn
Distributed systems researcher and technical lead. Staff Engineer at DoorDash, adjunct faculty at CMU. From award-winning research to Azure, AWS, and production Erlang systems.
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Stateful Experiments on AWS Lambda
In January 2017, we presented results to the European Commission on a FP7project called SyncFree, where we were tasked with a large-scale evaluationof the Lasp programming system. In this evaluatio...
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High-performance, exactly-once, failure-oblivious distributed programming (2018)
This is one post in a series about programming models and languages for distributed computing that I’m writing as part of my history of distributed programming techniques.Relevant ReadingTrill: A h...
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Applied Monotonicity: A Brief History of CRDTs in Riak
RiakAround 2013, Riak was at the forefront of Conflict-Free Replicated Data Type (CRDT) development with the engineers at Basho Technologies working hard to integrate efficient, usable CRDTs from t...
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Teaching Claude to QA a mobile app
“When life looks like Easy Street, there is danger at your door”— Grateful Dead, “Uncle John’s Band”
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Readings in distributed systems
This post is a work in progress.Inspired by a recent purchase of the Red Book, which providesa curated list of important papers around database systems, I’ve decidedto begin assembling a list of im...