Effective Papers

Nice papers: Serverless in the Wild: Characterizing and Optimizing the Serverless Workload at a Large Cloud Provider Starling: A Scalable Query Engine on Cloud Function Services Lambada: Interactive Data Analytics on Cold Data using Serverless Cloud Infrastructure LogPlayer: Fault-tolerant Exactly-once Delivery using gRPC Asynchronous Streaming Automated reasoning for cloud computing systems Distributed systems class from MIT Interesting posts: Programming language design and compilers: where to start? NYT Is Threatening My Safety By Revealing My Real Name, So I Am Deleting The Blog Copy editing Creating a positive lab culture from Margo Seltzer Saccadic masking Podcast suggestions:  Revisionist History by Malcolm Gladwell Against the Rules by Michael Lewis Pet peeves: Lack of participatory and effective leadership across all levels and domains is disconcerting. Rough waters are truer tests of leadership. In calm water, every ship has a good captain. The immense popularity of ML ma...

Making Databases Work: the Pragmatic Wisdom of Michael Stonebraker, December 2018. This is available as a free download at https://dl.acm.org/doi/book/10.1145/3226595 . In addition to databases, the book talks about Stonebraker's approach to advising and finding research problems .   Datacenter RPCs Can Be General and Fast CockroachDB: The Resilient Geo-Distributed SQL Database (Sigmod 2020) eXtreme Modelling in Practice (VLDB 2020) Beyond Analytics: the Evolution of Stream Processing Systems (Sigmod 2020) Follow on Twitter:  Jonathan Ellis ,  Neil Gunther ,  Steven Strogatz   ICYMI: Research, writing, and career advice  and Learning about distributed systems: where to start? Podcast suggestion: Weird name aside, this is a nice podcast. This one was particularly a very good listen. I put the Stephen Cope's book on my reading queue. As for true calling, I have this weird fixation with distributed systems. The first time I took an undergraduate class that i...