Alan Jeffrey
I want to wrap up 2024 by talking about my friend Alan Jeffrey, who we lost this year.
When is causal broadcast not enough for causal memory?
September 22, 2024 September 22, 2024
While getting ready to teach my While getting ready to teach my grad distributed systems course this fallgrad distributed systems course this fall, I found myself once again flipping through Cheriton and Skeen’s , I found myself once again flipping through Cheriton and Skeen’s rather scathing 1993 article “Understanding the limitations of causally and totally ordered communication”rather scathing 1993 article “Understanding the limitations of causally and totally ordered communication”..
The last !!Con!
You may or may not already know about !!Con (pronounced “bang bang con”), the radically eclectic, radically affordable conference of ten-minute talks about the joy, excitement, and surprise of computing!