Optimizing our way through Metroid

Octopolis and Octlantis

Without the futex, it's futile

From East India Company to Big Tech: Why corporations keep seeking colonies

Dynamo, DynamoDB, and Aurora DSQL

Consensus Algorithms at Scale (2020)

Why is LED light so bad?

History of improvements in VACUUM in PostgreSQL (2023)

PostgreSQL 17.6, 16.10, 15.14, 14.19, 13.22, and 18 Beta 3 Released

LazyLog: A New Shared Log Abstraction for Low-Latency Applications [pdf]

Students from Southeast Asia in demand at universities

Spanner columnar engine: Powering next-generation analytics on operational data

Implementing Viewstamped Replication protocol (2023)

Scaling Correctness: Marc Brooker on a Decade of Formal Methods at AWS

Postgres Replication Slots: Confirmed Flush LSN vs. Restart LSN

Let's Hax0r a GC (Eventually)

The Art of Multiprocessor Programming 2nd Edition Book Club

Giving Benchmarks a Boat

Top courtyards in New York City residential buildings

How to Test the Reliability of Durable Execution

Kubernetes Solves Its Biggest Problem: Managing Databases

A distributed systems reliability glossary

Algeria

Why Bhutan Is Building the Anti-Dubai [video]

Efficiency of a Sparse Hash Table

Implementing typography at scale: the journey behind the screens

On Far Memory

A new dimension of database design

Deterministic Simulation Testing in Rust: A Theater of State Machines

The (Non-) Effect of Primary Keys on Bulk Data Load Performance

Fail Faster: Staging and Fast Randomness for Property-Based Testing [video]

FUZZING'25 Keynote: "Are you sure you belong in academia?" by Will Wilson [video]

From Python Programmer to Distributed Systems Researcher in 10 Years Without PhD

Amazon DynamoDB global tables with multi-Region strong consistency is now GA

Caching is an Abstraction, not an Optimization

How often is the query plan optimal?

Behind the scenes: Redpanda Cloud's response to the GCP outage

Chinese industrial maximalism: Lu Feng

There Ain't No Such Thing as a Free Custom Memory Allocator

Kicking the Tires on CedarDB's SQL

New York City steam system

Microbes in Gowanus teach lessons on fighting industrial pollution

How to give a 20 minute talk [pdf]

The Zoom attack you didn't see coming

Plan to Attack Switzerland Before Business Hours (2014)

A C implementation of defer using `goto`

Characteristics, Impact, and Tolerance of Partial Disk Failures (2008)

Was Salonica a Levantine City? (2012)

Postgres in the Time of Monster Hardware

The Immutable Future of PostgreSQL Extensions in Kubernetes with CloudNativePG

Other Kinds of Talks

CMU 17-712: Fantastic Bugs and How to Find Them

How to disaggregate a log replication protocol

The Baltics are in the final hours of relying on Russia

The Slotted Counter Pattern (2020)

Doubling System Read Throughput with Only 26 Lines of Code (2020)