Pat Helland
@PatHelland
Building distributed systems & databases since 1978. Now at Salesforce. Dropped out of UC Irvine in 1976. Write for ACM Queue & blog @ https://t.co/MYYTVzxjyj
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01-12-2011 20:07:36
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If you love databases, at least look at the program for CIDR 2024 and consider attending. There are still 'rooms at the inn'.
cidrdb.org/cidr2024/progr…
I will be there to present my paper: pathelland.substack.com/p/bdc17ae2-6a7… and hope you can come to engage in fun discussions with me!
A new blog post linking to a video of my recent ACM DEBS keynote: 'I'm SO Glad I'm Uncoordinated!'
pathelland.substack.com/p/video-of-im-…
The video explores the increasing challenges we face with coordination in systems and describes a taxonomy of 'tricks' commonly used to reduce the pain.
I just posted pathelland.substack.com/p/im-probably-… to my blog.
It explores my existential transformation caused by a mid-life crisis about determinism and probabilities. This dramatically impacts how I perceive complex systems. It also helps me understand computer scientists and engineers.
Version 3 of pathelland.substack.com/p/dont-get-stu… looks at consistency in the CAP Theorem.
CAP theorem:
CONSISTENT READS are only possible if you're willing to sacrifice availability or partition-tolerance.
Consistent reads, Availability, Partition-tolerance: Pick Two.
CAP is really CrAP!
Tyler Jewell An enthusiastic YES to all the things you enumerated.
New and important solutions will emerge if we apply creativity to new innovations that squander CPU, storage, memory, and bandwidth to reduce latency.
It's a heckuva wonderful time to be a nerd!
I really enjoyed yesterday's tweet-fest about consistency. I got up at 6am and started reading more and writing.
Here's a new version of yesterday's post. pathelland.substack.com/p/dont-get-stu…
This one's about 60+% longer with new stuff on linearizability and also about the CAP theorem.