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CockroachDB Serverless: Sub-second Scaling from Zero with Multi-region Cluster Virtualization
Welcome to Town Al-Gasr
Agentic AI and The Mythical Agent-Month
Rethinking the University in the Age of AI
Cloudspecs: Cloud Hardware Evolution Through the Looking Glass
Too Close to Our Own Image?
Rethinking the Cost of Distributed Caches for Datacenter Services
LeaseGuard: Raft Leases Done Right!
Brainrot
Best of metadata in 2025
Disaggregated Database Management Systems
Taurus MM: A Cloud-Native Shared-Storage Multi-Master Database
Taurus Database: How to be Fast, Available, and Frugal in the Cloud
Academic chat: On PhD
Tiga: Accelerating Geo-Distributed Transactions with Synchronized Clocks
The Invisible Curriculum of Research
Four Ivies. Two days.
Supporting our AI overlords: Redesigning data systems to be Agent-first
Disaggregation: A New Architecture for Cloud Databases
Our Myrtle Beach vacation
Recent Reads (September 25)
Asymmetric Linearizable Local Reads
Cabinet: Dynamically Weighted Consensus Made Fast
Vive la Difference: Practical Diff Testing of Stateful Applications
Towards Optimal Transaction Scheduling
Neurosymbolic AI: The 3rd Wave
Neurosymbolic AI: Why, What, and How
Can a Client–Server Cache Tango Accelerate Disaggregated Storage?
Transaction Healing: Scaling Optimistic Concurrency Control on Multicores
Analysing Snapshot Isolation
Recent reads (July 2025)
Real Life Is Uncertain. Consensus Should Be Too!
Morty: Scaling Concurrency Control with Re-Execution
Serializable Isolation for Snapshot Databases
ATC/OSDI’25 Technical Sessions
ATC/OSDI 2025 impressions
Chapter 7: Distributed Recovery (Concurrency Control Book)
Analyzing Metastable Failures in Distributed Systems
Chapter 6: Centralized Recovery (Concurrency Control Book)
Chapter 5: Multiversion Concurrency Control (Concurrency Control Book)