Murat Demirbas

On distributed systems broadly defined and other curiosities. The opinions on this site are my own.

I still don't have any idea what Instagram or Facebook stories is. Tried Googling and still don't have a good idea about it. — Murat Dem...

In middle school I could not get through long passages no matter how hard I tried. I would read an entire page and find that nothing had reg...

I have been learning about machine learning and deep learning (ML/DL) for the last year. I think ML/DL is here to stay. I don't think this i...

I talked about the importance of reading foundational papers last week. To followup, here is my compilation of foundational papers in the d...

I have come to suspect that to most people thinking is painful. Some of us are addicted to thinking. Some of us find it a necessity. Johnny ...

This is definitely not a "learn distributed systems in 21 days" post. I recommend a principled, from the foundations-up, studying of distrib...

Twenty years ago, in 2004-2005, I spent a year at MIT’s Computer Science department as a postdoc working with Professor Nancy Lynch. It was ...

Back in 2005, when I first joined the SUNY Buffalo CSE department, the department secretary was a wonderful lady named Joann, who was over 6...

Below is the first draft list of papers I plan to discuss in my distributed systems seminar in the Spring semester. If you have some suggest...

This is a favorite saying of mine. I use it to motivate myself when I feel disheartened about how much I have to learn and improve. If I do ...