Systems Papers

By Micah Lerner

I write about papers from the worlds of distributed systems, operating systems, and computer security (among other technical topics!)

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Previous issues

Systems Papers - Seven years in the life of Hypergiants' off-nets

#16 Sep 6, 2022

Systems Papers - Automatic Reliability Testing For Cluster Management Controllers

#15 Aug 25, 2022

Systems Papers - Metastable Failures in the Wild

#14 Jul 23, 2022

#13

Jul 10, 2022

Systems Papers - Sundial: Fault-tolerant Clock Synchronization for Datacenters – Hello! I’m trying out a new format for paper reviews and it would be great to get your feedback - fee
#12

Jun 11, 2022

Systems Papers - Data-Parallel Actors: A Programming Model for Scalable Query Serving Systems – Hello! I’m trying out a new format for paper reviews and it would be great to get your feedback - fee
#11

May 23, 2022

Systems Papers - Druid: A Real-time Analytical Data Store – Hello! I’m trying out a new format for paper reviews and it would be great to get your feedback - fee
#10

May 12, 2022

Monarch: Google’s Planet-Scale In-Memory Time Series Database – Hello! I’m trying out a new format for paper reviews and it would be great to get your feedback - fee
#9

Jan 31, 2022

Systems Papers - The Ties that un-Bind: Decoupling IP from web services and sockets for robust addressing agility at CDN-scale – Hello! I'm trying out a new format for paper reviews and it would be great to get your feedback - fee
#8

Jan 9, 2022

Systems Papers - Shard Manager: A Generic Shard Management Framework for Geo-distributed Applications – Hello! I’m trying out a new way of sending out my newsletter - if you notice any problems feel free t
#7

Dec 30, 2021

Systems Papers - ghOSt: Fast & Flexible User-Space Delegation of Linux Scheduling – Hello! I’m trying out a new way of sending out my newsletter - if you notice any problems feel free t
#6

Dec 13, 2021

Systems Papers - Kangaroo: Caching Billions of Tiny Objects on Flash – Hello! I’m trying out a new way of sending out my newsletter - if you notice any problems feel free t
#5

Dec 5, 2021

Systems Papers - Faster and Cheaper Serverless Computing on Harvested Resources – Hello! I’m trying out a new way of sending out my newsletter - if you notice any problems feel free t
#4

Nov 26, 2021

Log-structured protocols in Delos – Hello! I’m trying out a new way of sending out my newsletter - if you notice any problems feel free t
#3

Nov 15, 2021

The Demikernel Datapath OS Architecture for Microsecond-scale Datacenter Systems – Hello! I'm trying out a new way of sending out my newsletter - if you notice any problems feel free t
#2

Nov 2, 2021

Rudra: Finding Memory Safety Bugs in Rust at the Ecosystem Scale
#1

Oct 24, 2021

RAMP-TAO: Layering atomic transactions on Facebook’s online graph store – Newsletter note: I'm switching up how my newsletter is delivered (to Revue). Feel free to reach out o