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)

Why Trees Without Branches Grow Faster: The Case for Reducing Branches in Code

People who use ChatGPT for writing are robust detectors of AI-generated text

Cloud Native Computing Now Has Its Own File System: CubeFS

The missing tier for query compilers

How Variable-Increment Counting Bloom Filters Work

2025: The Year of 1k DataFusion-Based Systems

Channel Sharding in Go

Zig Strike: The ultimate toolkit for payload creation and evasion

What Are the Magical Clocks For?

Learnings after 4 years working with 50+ companies on data engineering projects

Zoom Changes Name to Emphasize AI Offerings, Gives Sales Forecast

PostgreSQL Hacking Workshop – December 2024

LevelDB Explained – How to Analyze the Time Complexity of SkipLists?

Lecture 16: Relational Algebra [pdf]

Building a first-class exchange architecture with CoralSequencer

Ultra-low-latency, batching and concurrent queue for IPC in Java

Modern Hardware for Future Databases

Reading the Generalized Isolation Level Definitions Paper with Alloy

Obtaining statistical properties through modeling and simulation

NYC's congestion pricing tolls to launch Jan. 5: What you need to know

"I'm fortunate to have a call with the Bluesky back end team for an hour a week"