Distopia

This is the starting post of a (hopefully) long series on consistency in computer systems. I always had this problem of not being able to get everything about consistency in my head. There are many consistency models (linearizable, strict serializable, snapshot isolation, …); I always forget what those terms mean,... [Read More]

Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System is a very interesting paper that discusses how a total order between events helps in building distributed systems. According to Leslie Lamport, there are many misconceptions about this paper; many people think that the main idea is the logical... [Read More]

For the past weeks, I have been thinking about time and how I can manage my time better. It’s a hard thing to do (I’m not yet happy with the way I do it), but I’m trying to get better at it. This post is my attempt to share what... [Read More]

Last week, I participated in a hack week organized by Phil Eaton (Thank you, Phil!) with 80 other amazing developers to do fun things with MariaDB/MySQL. During the week, I compiled MariaDB on my Mac and looked into the replication code. I set up replication and looked into the code... [Read More]

I am writing this post for two reasons: [Read More]