Distributed Systems Newsletter

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde Posts Scaling PostgreSQL to power 800M ChatGPT users #Openai Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke? #Eieiogames Inside StarRocks: Why Joins Are Faster Than You’d Expect #Starrocks Writing a TSDB from scratch in Go #GoogleDocs Salesforce Migrates 1,000+ EKS Clusters to Karpenter to Improve Scaling Speed and Efficiency #infoq #CraigRi…

Motivation, Hacking Modems, GraphQL, Laws of Software Complexity, JWTS, Intellectual Obesity, LeetCode Style Interviews, Apple Xserve

Why not Mars, TikTok's secret Sauce, Databases in 2022, Planetary scale database and Happy New Year! :)

Layoffs, Paxos, Formal methods at AWS, TikTok's recommendation system, Twitter infrastructure with 50000 servers, Building wavenet and much more...

Stop writing dead programs, Framework Laptop, Verifying Distributed systems, Large systems at Tesla's Power plant. ...

Learning TLA+, Stable Diffusion, Control theory and full video of Dsysphile expisode 1.

Compiler optimizations, Zig memory safety, Tailscale, TLA+, LXC and LXD, Rust in Linux 6.1 ... First episode of DSYSPHILE is coming soon.

I am thankful to all the readers, you are unique and interesting . I started this community in 2018 to spread curated knowledge about distributed systems. In this journey I met many readers who want to contribute as well as need help from fellow readers. So I created an interactive community DSYSPHILE. This community is focused on discussions, ideas, knowledge sharing on software development. Spe…

Git internals, Sqlite - past, present and future, perils of network partition, achieve 1000x TPS in real world system, important changes coming to newsletter.

Neural networks and back propagation, John Carmack Interview, Clock Bound Wait, Emergent Leader, Distributed Systems with Liquid Haskell

Understanding Distributed consensus, Resharding Petabytes of Data, Kernel VS DPDK, Building Servers as it should be, Coordination is increasingly painful, Open Logic Project.

“Men do not let anyone seize their estates, and if there is the slightest dispute about their boundaries they rush to stones and arms; but they allow others to encroach on their lives – why, they themselves even invite in those who will take over their lives.” — Seneca Posts Under the hood: How we built API versioning for LinkedIn Marketing APIs - #NihitPurwar #DemianLessa #ShruthiJeganathan #Lin…

Posts Live Video Streaming Infrastructure at Twitch #Shivang Techniques for Training Large Neural Networks #LilianWeng #GregBrockman The collapse of complex software #Nolan Lawson Must be This Tall to Write Multi-Threaded Code #BobbyHolley Zelos: A ZooKeeper API leveraging Delos #AliZaveri #SuyogMapara #DavidDevecsery I've locked myself out of my digital life #TerenceEden Cache made consistent: M…

Obey the principles without being bound by them — Bruce Lee Posts Consus: Taming the Paxi - #MuratDemirbas Data Race Patterns in Go - #MilindChabbi #MuraliKrishnaRamanathan How to Design Loosely Coupled Microservices - #J.Simpson How Effective Abstractions Are Opinionated - #BradEdiger Why do rescued stack traces often have instability at the start? - #RaymondChen OpenTelemetry: Where the SQL Is …

Critical reviews of Julia, Rust. More DB stuff. Patterns of distributed systems.

“Talented people are always in short supply. We are forced to create our work with insufficient resources, and that weakness becomes our very strength” — Hayao Miyazaki It’s raining databases! Recently there have been many new database announcements, from both open source as well as private companies. Be it columnar, relational, in-memory or file-based. I am privileged to work with few of tech st…

Deep Neural Nets - 33 yrs ago and 33 years in future, Dist sys shibboleths, Use fast algorithms, Tracing Single Operation in Dist Sys.

Elon musk talks about twitter, When dropbox unplugged a datacenter, What is entropy?, Practising programming, what does designing for google means.

Hitchhikers guide to blockchain, tale of sourceforge, computers can be understood, Go Generics, std:sort at google scale and beyond.

After 5 years, I'm out of the serverless compute cult, Scale to Zero Problem, Networking and Distributed Systems, Pathways: Asynchronous Distributed Dataflow for ML