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bud: bloom under development
Today was a big day in the BOOM group: we launched the alpha version of Bud: Bloom Under Development. If you’re new to this blog, Bloom is our new programming language for cloud computing and other...
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CACM Article on Jim Gray Search
The recent July 2011 issue of Communications of the ACM includes our article on the technical aspects of the search for Jim Gray’s boat Tenacious. This was a hard article to write, for both technical...
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Is Teaching MapReduce Healthy for Students?
I sat at Berkeley CS faculty lunch this past week with Brian Harvey and Dan Garcia, two guys who think hard about teaching computing to undergraduates. I was waxing philosophical about how we need to...
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Quantifying Eventual Consistency via PBS
If you follow this blog, you know that my BOOM group has spent a lot of time in the past couple years formalizing eventual consistency (EC) for distributed programs, via the CALM theorem and practical...
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Consistency Without Borders
We just finished writing up an overview of our most recent thinking about distributed consistency. The paper is entitled Consistency Without Borders, and it’s going to appear in the ACM SoCC...
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Debugging Distributed Programs with Blazes
A major source of frustration in distributed programming is that contemporary software tools—think compilers and debuggers—have little to say about the really tricky bugs that distributed systems...
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Lineage-Driven Fault Injection at Netflix
As mentioned in my previous post, Peter Alvaro turned in his PhD thesis a month back, and is now in full swing as a professor at UC Santa Cruz. In the midst of that nifty academic accomplishment, he...
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Anna: A Crazy Fast, Super-Scalable, Flexibly Consistent KVS
There’s fast and there’s fast. This post is about Anna*, a key/value database design from our team at Berkeley that’s got phenomenal speed and buttery smooth scaling, with an unprecedented range of...
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Serverless Computing: One Step FW, Two Steps Back
tl;dr: Colleagues at Berkeley and I have a new paper on the state of serverless computing that will appear at CIDR ’19. It celebrates the arrival of public-facing autoscaling cloud programming, but...
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An Overview of the CALM Theorem
For folks who care about what’s possible in distributed computing: Peter Alvaro and I wrote an introduction to the CALM Theorem and subsequent work that is now up on arXiv. The CALM Theorem formally...
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