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...
Category: Thinking out loud
Failure: I want more of it.
Students in the Georgia Tech program collaborate with one another — and collaborate with professors and teacher assistants — through a platform called Piazza. B...
20s for education, 30s for experience, 40s for career.
In my mid twenties, I was blessed to receive some of the best career, and quite frankly, life advice. During that period of my life, I was working as a director...
Being paged out of bed at 3 AM …
Sadly I didn’t get to start the day off with writing, my morning routine, since my phone paged me out of bed at 3 AM due to an operational issue from work...
What does “invariant partial ordering” mean in Leslie Lamport’s “Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System”
In the conclusion of Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System, Leslie Lamport states that: the concept of “happening before”...
Farmhouse style doors – sliding door ideas for my home office
Below are a couple photos of farm house doors that I think have good taste. I’m thinking of adding one of these type of doors to my new home office and wa...
What’s the point of the parity flag in the dissemination barrier?
I’m implementating the dissemination barrier (above) in C for my advanced OS course and I’m not quite sure I understand the pseudo code itself. In p...
Learning how to build a personal brand (two books I picked up)
I want to learn how to better market myself and what it means to create my own personal brand and how I might be able to apply these marketing skills in my care...
Making sense of the “sense reversing barrier” (synchronization)
What’s the deal with a sense reversing barrier? Even after watching the lectures on the topic, I was still confused as to how a single flag could toggle b...
Thinking out loud – Not fully understanding virtually indexed physically tagged (VIPT) details
I’m really struggling to intimately understanding virtually index privately tagged concept. From a high level, I get that VIPT is an optimization techniqu...