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Marc Brooker

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2020

Getting Big Things Doneoriginal ↗
19 Oct 2020
Consensus is Harder Than It Looksoriginal ↗
5 Oct 2020
Focus on the Good Partsoriginal ↗
2 Sept 2020
Surprising Economics of Load-Balanced Systemsoriginal ↗
6 Aug 2020
A Story About a Fishoriginal ↗
28 Jul 2020
Code Only Says What it Doesoriginal ↗
23 Jun 2020
Some Virtualization Papers Worth Readingoriginal ↗
8 Jun 2020
Reading Research: A Guide for Software Engineersoriginal ↗
25 May 2020
Two Years With Rustoriginal ↗
22 Mar 2020
Firecracker: Lightweight Virtualization for Serverless Applicationsoriginal ↗
19 Feb 2020
Physalia: Millions of Tiny Databasesoriginal ↗
17 Feb 2020
Why do we need distributed systems?original ↗
2 Jan 2020

2019

Kindness, Wickedness and Safetyoriginal ↗
12 Aug 2019
When Redundancy Actually Helpsoriginal ↗
20 Jun 2019
Is Anatoly Dyatlov to blame?original ↗
17 Jun 2019
Some risks of coordinating only sometimesoriginal ↗
1 May 2019
Learning to build distributed systemsoriginal ↗
3 Apr 2019
Control Planes vs Data Planesoriginal ↗
17 Mar 2019

2018

Telling Stories About Little's Laworiginal ↗
20 Jun 2018
Availability and availabilityoriginal ↗
25 Feb 2018
Balls Into Bins In Distributed Systemsoriginal ↗
1 Jan 2018

2017

Is the Mean Really Useless?original ↗
28 Dec 2017

2016

Why Must Systems Be Operated?original ↗
3 Jan 2016

2015

Heuristic Traps for Systems Operatorsoriginal ↗
5 Nov 2015
Is there a CAP theorem for Durability?original ↗
26 Sept 2015
CALISDO: Threat Modeling for Distributed Designsoriginal ↗
20 Jun 2015
Sodium Carbonate, and Ramenized Pastaoriginal ↗
24 May 2015
The Zero, One, Infinity Diseaseoriginal ↗
11 Apr 2015
How Amazon Web Services Uses Formal Methodsoriginal ↗
29 Mar 2015
Jitter: Making Things Better With Randomnessoriginal ↗
21 Mar 2015
Electoral Trouble in Sybilaniaoriginal ↗
3 Mar 2015
Does Bitcoin Solve Byzantine Consensus?original ↗
28 Feb 2015
A Quiet Defense of Patternsoriginal ↗
25 Jan 2015

2014

Make Your Program Slower With Threadsoriginal ↗
6 Dec 2014
Two Farmers and Common Knowledgeoriginal ↗
30 Nov 2014
Exactly-Once Delivery May Not Be What You Wantoriginal ↗
15 Nov 2014
Ice Cream and Distributed Systemsoriginal ↗
25 Oct 2014
Harvest and Yield: Not A Natural Cure for Tradeoff Confusionoriginal ↗
12 Oct 2014
The Essential Barbara Liskovoriginal ↗
21 Sept 2014
The Space Between Theory and Practice in Distributed Systemsoriginal ↗
10 Aug 2014
Use of Formal Methods at Amazon Web Servicesoriginal ↗
9 Aug 2014
CAP and PACELC: Thinking More Clearly About Consistencyoriginal ↗
16 Jul 2014
Two traps in iostat: %util and svctmoriginal ↗
4 Jul 2014
The Operations Gradient: Improving Safety in Complex Systemsoriginal ↗
29 Jun 2014
Viewstamped Replication: The Less-Famous Consensus Protocoloriginal ↗
19 May 2014
The Essential Nancy Lynchoriginal ↗
10 May 2014
Failure Detectors, and Non-Blocking Atomic Commitoriginal ↗
14 Apr 2014
The Essential Leslie Lamportoriginal ↗
30 Mar 2014
Snark, Chord, and Trust in Algorithmsoriginal ↗
8 Mar 2014
Distributed Consensus: Beating Impossibility with Probability Oneoriginal ↗
12 Jan 2014

2013

Restricted Transactional Memory on Haswelloriginal ↗
16 Dec 2013
Hardware Lock Elision on Haswelloriginal ↗
14 Dec 2013
Beyond iostat: Storage performance analysis with blktraceoriginal ↗
14 Jul 2013
Some Patterns of Engineering Design Meetingsoriginal ↗
25 May 2013
Exploring TLA+ with two-phase commitoriginal ↗
20 Jan 2013
C++11's atomic and volatile, under the hood on x86original ↗
6 Jan 2013

2012

Java's Atomic and volatile, under the hood on x86original ↗
13 Nov 2012
Are volatile reads really free?original ↗
10 Sept 2012
Highly contended and fair locking in Javaoriginal ↗
10 Sept 2012
Expect Less, Get More?original ↗
2 Sept 2012
Latency lags bandwidthoriginal ↗
11 Feb 2012
The properties of crash-only softwareoriginal ↗
22 Jan 2012
The power of two random choicesoriginal ↗
17 Jan 2012
The benefits of having dataoriginal ↗
10 Jan 2012
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