The Impact of Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies
Explore blockchain's impact on currency, governance, and global power dynamics. Discover how this technology challenges traditional financial systems and reshapes national sovereignty.
Beyond Blockchain - Convergent Consensus
Explore a novel consensus algorithm inspired by CRDTs and category theory, offering efficient and scalable decentralized computation. Learn about Convergent Proof of Stake and its implementation using Convex Lisp.
Why Are Distributed Systems So Hard?
Explore the challenges of distributed systems, including CAP theorem myths, network partitions, consensus algorithms, and human factors, with cat-illustrated examples.
Gryff - Unifying Consensus and Shared Registers
Unifying consensus and shared registers for geo-replicated storage with linearizability and low tail latency. Introduces carstamps for efficient ordering of reads and writes in distributed systems.
Is There Anybody Out There?
Explore fault-tolerance and scalability in reactive applications, covering failure detectors, dissemination strategies, and consensus algorithms in Akka Cluster, with Pink Floyd references.
The Computer Science Behind a Modern Distributed Data Store
Explore the challenges and approaches in building distributed, resilient data stores. Learn about consensus algorithms, distributed transactions, and query optimization in modern NoSQL databases like ArangoDB and Cassandra.
The Computer Science Behind a Modern Distributed Data Store
Explore the challenges and solutions in modern distributed data stores, covering consensus, transactions, and query optimization. Insights into ArangoDB, Cassandra, Cockroach, and RethinkDB.
Distributed Ledger
Explore the evolution of distributed ledger technology and consensus algorithms, from Paxos to Hashgraph, with insights on their pros and cons and impact on application architecture.
Why Are Distributed Systems so Hard?
Explore the challenges of distributed systems, including CAP theorem myths, network partitions, consensus algorithms, and human factors in system design.
The Sleepy Model of Consensus
Explore a novel consensus protocol for distributed systems, addressing challenges in blockchain and cryptocurrency networks with dynamic participation.
Akka JS - Drop Your Actors Outside the JVM Boundaries
Explore porting Akka to Scala.js, enabling unified concurrent programming across JVM and JavaScript environments. Learn about challenges, implementations, and future plans for this ambitious project.
Onyx: Functional, Distributed Data Processing for Clojure
Explore Onyx's masterless coordination for distributed data processing in Clojure. Learn about its architecture, consensus mechanisms, and fault tolerance in network partitions and machine failures.
Oxia - A Horizontally Scalable Alternative to Apache Zookeeper
Discover Oxia, a horizontally scalable alternative to Apache Zookeeper. Learn about its architecture, benefits, and potential as a Zookeeper replacement across the Apache ecosystem.
Apache IoTDB - A Distributed Time Series Database with Scalable Partitioning and Consensus Algorithm
Discover the architecture and implementation of a distributed time series database system designed for IoT data management and scalable consensus algorithms.