A CAP tradeoff in the wild

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”..

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August 18, 2023 August 18, 2023

My research group was busy this past year. Here’s a summary of what we’ve been up to in 2022-2023!