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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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...
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...
“When life looks like Easy Street, there is danger at your door”— Grateful Dead, “Uncle John’s Band”
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...