Week in Review: 2021/01/17 – 2021/01/24
Not too much to report this week. Not because nothing happened, but because I wasn’t at diligent in capturing this week’s activities; I was on-call ...
Author: Matt Chung
Why is Lamport’s Scalar Clock only consistent, not strongly consistent?
For the last couple days, I’ve been watching the distributed systems video lectures and reading the recommended papers that cover logical clocks. Even aft...
8 fallacies of distributed computing
Rotem-Gal-Oz, A. (2005). Fallacies of Distributed Computing Explained. Cognitive biases (built-in patterns of thinking) and fallacies (errors in thoughts) creep...
What are good models and what models are good?
Schneider, F. B. (1993). What good are models and what models are good. Distributed Systems, 2, 17–26. Paper Summary In his seminal paper on models (as they app...
Distributed Computing – Lesson 1 Summary
Summary Distributed systems are everywhere: social media, internet of things, single server systems — all part of larger, distributed systems. But how do you de...
Spring 2021: Distributed Computing
Yes! I’m finally registered for the distributed computing course. This course is hot off the press! It’s spanking brand new to the OMSCS program and...
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2020 year in review
Survival First things first: I’m grateful for surviving this difficult, weird and straight-up dystopian year. 2020 was the absolute worst; although the year wil...
Two memorable quotes from Ira Glass’s interview
While perusing Aaron’s Swartz’s blog, I stopped and read his post titled “Writing A Book: Part 2”. In this post, Aaron swoons over Ira Glass’s unparalleled stor...
Just a thought: On working from home
Like almost everyone else working remotely due to the COVID-19 global pandemic, I struggled with adjusting to the work from home situation, more than I could’ve...
Reader expectations and three dimensions for emphasizing writing
Fred the dog beater Look at the above example, the four sentences. Now, take each of those sentences and imagine you poll an audience of 100 people, asking them...