Distributed Systems

How Peter Alvaro’s lineage-driven fault injection clicked with me, and why I ended up at Antithesis.

How our favorite single-machine data-access patterns are just as unsafe when we scale them out to distributed systems.

A QCon NY 2019 panel covering the promises and perils of building distributed systems without coordination.

Applying Pat Helland’s ideas from ‘Life Beyond Distributed Transactions’ to build stateful applications that scale almost infinitely.

How we combined fault injection, message tracing, and auditing to build trust in a distributed stream processor.