https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2015/02/exploring-complex-networks.html
Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Exploring Complex Networks | All Things Distributed
Feb 12, 2015 - After a year of absence I am bringing back the Back to Basic Weekend Reading Series. We’ll continue to look at the fundamental works of Computer Science and...
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https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2017/03/implementation-log-structured-file-system.html
Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading: An Implementation of a Log-Structured File System | All Things...
Mar 30, 2017 - This weekend I will be rereading one of the first papers that described a production implementation of a research result, that of a Log Structure File System.
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https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2015/03/grapevine-distributed-computing.html
Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Experience with Grapevine: The Growth of a Distributed System |...
Mar 6, 2015 - Grapevine was one of the first systems designed to be fully distributed. It was built at the famous Xerox PARC as an exercise in discovering what is needed as...
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https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2015/05/survey-of-local-algorithms.html
Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Survey of Local Algorithms | All Things Distributed
May 29, 2015 - A local algorithm is a distributed algorithm that runs in constant time, independently of the size of the network. Being highly scalable and fault tolerant,...
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https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2013/06/auctions-and-bidding.html
Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Auctions and bidding: A guide for computer scientists | All Things...
Jun 8, 2013 - I have just returned from the AWS Summits in New Zealand and Japan, which were both very well attended and, according to the feedback, very successful. While I...
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https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2013/05/continuations-in-operating-system.html
Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Using continuations to implement thread management and...
May 10, 2013 - I have returned from a great series of AWS Summits in NYC and in Europe so it is time to get back to some weekend reading. During the nineties much operating...
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https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2015/02/raid-high-performance-reliable-secondary-storage.html
Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - RAID: High-Performance, Reliable Secondary Storage | All Things...
Feb 20, 2015 - Disk arrays, which organize multiple, independent disks into a large, high-performance logical disk, were a natural solution to dealing with constraints on...
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https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2013/10/tor-second-generation-onion-router.html
Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Tor: The Second-Generation Onion Router | All Things Distributed
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https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2012/09/leases.html
Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Leases | All Things Distributed
Sep 21, 2012 - I was in Los Angeles this week for the Digital Media on AWS Summit and to visit many of the studios and production houses that are using AWS for production and...
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https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2015/04/machine-learning.html
Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Machine Learning | All Things Distributed
Apr 3, 2015 - Machine learning is a scientific discipline that explores the construction and study of algorithms that can learn from data. This weekend we read two survey...
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https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2012/09/counting-bloom-filters.html
Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Counting Bloom Filters | All Things Distributed
Sep 28, 2012 - I am in India for the AWS Summits in Mumbai, Chennai and Bangalore (next week). As always in India I have an amazing time, the events are packed, the...
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https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2017/03/deep-learning-neural-networks.html
Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading: Deep learning in neural networks | All Things Distributed
Mar 24, 2017 - This weekend I will be revisiting the history of deep learning through this overview paper
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https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2017/02/byzantine-generals.html
Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading: Byzantine Generals | All Things Distributed
Feb 24, 2017 - This weekend I will be re-reading the 1978, 1980 and 1982 papers that first described the Byzantine Generals problem.
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https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2012/11/encryption-for-authentication.html
Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Using Encryption for Authentication | All Things Distributed
Nov 9, 2012 - Now that I am enjoying some time in Seattle with real weekends, I like to remind you that my reading list is called back-to-basics. My goal with reading these...
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https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2017/03/foundation-of-blockchain.html
Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading: The Foundations of Blockchain | All Things Distributed
Mar 10, 2017 - This weekend I will be reading 3 papers that describe the computer science foundations on which blockchain was built
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https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2012/08/granularity-of-locks.html
Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Granularity of locks | All Things Distributed
Aug 31, 2012 - I am at funconf in Ireland. After a ride in a Delorean, a private train ride to Galway and a helicopter flight I am sitting outside a cottage on the island of...
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https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2013/08/spatial-databases.html
Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - An Introduction to Spatial Database Systems | All Things...
Aug 30, 2013 - Storing and querying datasets that contain objects in a geometric space have always required special treatment. The choice of data structures and query...
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https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2013/10/unet-user-level-network-interface.html
Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - U-Net: A User-Level Network Interface | All Things Distributed
Oct 25, 2013 - Many of you know Thorsten von Eicken as the founder of Rightscale, the company that has helped numerous organizations find their way onto AWS. In what seems...
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https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2012/10/automatic-reconfiguration-in-autonet.html
Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Automatic Reconfiguration in Autonet | All Things Distributed
Oct 12, 2012 - I wrote this post last week but didn’t get around to publishing it. I am heading to Europe this weekend for, among other things, Structure Europe and the AWS...
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https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2013/01/epidemics.html
Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Epidemics | All Things Distributed
Jan 25, 2013 - My paper to read this weekend was the Alan Demers' seminal paper on epidemic techniques for database replication. I realized that in 2004, before my Amazon...
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https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2012/11/andrew-file-system.html
Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - The Andrew File System | All Things Distributed
Nov 17, 2012 - This weekend I am heading to Brussels for meetings with the European Commission, specifically with Vice-president Neelie Kroes who owns the Digital Agenda for...
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https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2017/03/why-do-computers-fail.html
Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading: Why Do Computers Stop and What Can Be Done About It? | All Things...
Mar 4, 2017 - This weekend I will be re-reading the first study on computer reliability, performed by Jim Gray when he was at Tandem
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https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2012/11/sparse-partitions.html
Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Sparse Partitions | All Things Distributed
Nov 30, 2012 - The amazing AWS re: Invent conference completed last night and I am on my way to Europe for a last visit to customers this year. I am carrying with me a more...
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https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2013/04/practical-applications-triggers-constraints.html
Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Practical Applications of Triggers and Constraints: Successes and...
Apr 5, 2013 - At the end of the 80’s Ceri and Widom were researching the fundamentals of integrity constraints in databases. In 2000 they were invited by the VLDB conference...
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https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2012/07/back-to-basics-hints-for-computer-system-design.html
Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Hints for Computer Systems Design | All Things Distributed
Jul 13, 2012 - For a while now I have been on a track to read one influential/fundamental Computer Science paper each weekend. I find that going back to the basics of system,...
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https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2015/02/distributed-snapshots.html
Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Distributed Snapshots: Determining Global States of a Distributed...
Feb 27, 2015 - Classical paper describing the Chandy-Lamport Algorithm
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https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2017/02/bloom-filters.html
Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Bloom Filters | All Things Distributed
Feb 3, 2017 - This weekend I will be reading the 1970 paper by Burton Bloom on his space-efficient probabilistic datastructure for scalable set management
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