On building scalable control planes

ActivityPub Won by Being Boring

Building Mini Spark, a Tiny Distributed Computing Engine

Tsampi BFT: Leaderless One-Round Voting with Parameterized Finality

capri: Type-safe, atomic Gleam bindings for Khepri, the modern distributed database for the BEAM

Could distributed systems be taught from first principles rather than from a catalogue of architectural mechanisms?

Almost consensus: ABD and the edges of quorum replication

Twenty Years of Bigtable

Symptom-level transcriptome-wide associations of NMN-nominated KEGG pathways in major depression: a distributed endocytosis–hypersomnia signal, gene-weighted immune and motor cassettes…

Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects

After 24 years, Return to Castle Wolfenstein is finally distributed uncut in Germany — game was censored due to strict laws regarding Nazi symbolism

WAL based distributed consensus on S3

ATProto for Distributed Systems Engineers

Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects

Distributed Consensus on S3

The Future Isn’t Evenly Distributed

What is distributed Key Generation (DKG)?

Crossflight: distributed cache stampede protection

I built AvoOnce: A lightweight, framework-agnostic distributed idempotency engine for Java

Distributed ID for Kafka streams applications

Flame – A distributed engine for elastic AI workloads, written in Rust

Hive: embeddable leaderless distributed cache, no sidecar/infra, just a Go import

Cloudflare Meerkat - Globally distributed consensus

Atomarine: Nuclear Data Centers at Sea

Finding bugs in Raft implementations

Private data in ATProto: Permissioned Data Proposal

Job queues are deceptively tricky

What Even Are Microservices?

How Gnutella Scaled to Handle Query Traffic

Why Does the Cloud Stop Computing?: Lessons from Hundreds of Service Outages (2016)

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