CRDTs: The Hard Parts
Martin Kleppmann·2020·Hydra·38 minYears after CRDTs went mainstream, Kleppmann revisits the awkward corners — moving list items, deletions, garbage collection — that papers gloss over.
Conflict Resolution for Eventual Consistency
Martin Kleppmann·2016·GOTOA tour of the algorithms that let independent replicas converge without a coordinator — and why CRDTs are the cleanest answer we have.
Turning the Database Inside Out with Apache Samza
Martin Kleppmann·2015·Strange LoopKleppmann argues we've been thinking about databases backwards: the log is the source of truth, and the database is just a materialized view of it.
Jepsen 9: A Fsyncing Feeling
Kyle Kingsbury·2018·GOTOKingsbury takes a flamethrower to databases that promise more than they deliver, and shows how Jepsen catches them lying about consistency.
Building a Distributed Message Log from Scratch
Tyler Treat·2018·GOTOWhat you learn when you implement a Kafka-style log yourself: replication, leader election, fsync semantics, and the limits of 'just use a queue.'
Zebras All the Way Down
Bryan Cantrill·2017·UptimeCantrill on the engineering of the data path — the unglamorous, decade-long work of building software that holds onto your bytes when everything else is on fire.
Event Sourcing
Greg Young·2014·GOTOYoung walks through the idea that mutating state is a lossy compression of history — and what you get back when you stop throwing the events away.