New blog post: 'Formal Methods: Just Good Engineering Practice?' brooker.co.za/blog/2024/04/1…

New blog post: 'Formal Methods: Just Good Engineering Practice?' brooker.co.za/blog/2024/04/1…

Tired of complex cache eviction algorithms that compromise performance for efficiency in web caches? Our NSDI 2024 paper on SIEVE offers an elegant solution that provides superior performance, scalability and simplicity! Catch our talk on Wed April 17 4:10pm #NSDI

I was trying to make two points with this thread: all technologies, even great ones, come with trade offs and downsides; and there's always room to improve things, no matter how respected and tenured they are.

Happy to confirm that Market House's Reuben is still the best sandwich in town.

'With mathematics, we can predict the behavior of systems before a single line of code is written.' - Marc Brooker, VP/Distinguished Engineer at Amazon Web Services

#TLAPlusConf #FormalMethods #OpenSource

The cornerstone of differential privacy is the random number generator. You get it wrong and everything falls apart.

This is a mechanically verified implementation of the discrete Gaussian algorithm by Gautam Kamath, Clément Canonne , Thomas Steinke