Distributed Consensus Revised
Heidi Howard·2019·PWLConf·36 minHoward revisits the foundations of Paxos and shows that the quorum intersection requirement we all took as gospel is more flexible than the original paper let on.
The World Is Asynchronous
Werner Vogels·2022·AWS re:InventVogels makes the case that loose coupling and event-driven architecture aren't a style choice — they're how the world actually works.
CRDTs: The Hard Parts
Martin Kleppmann·2020·HydraYears after CRDTs went mainstream, Kleppmann revisits the awkward corners — moving list items, deletions, garbage collection — that papers gloss over.
When To Use Microservices (And When Not To!)
Sam Newman, Martin Fowler·2020·GOTONewman and Fowler talk through the cases where microservices earn their keep — and the much larger set where they don't.
The Soul of Erlang and Elixir
Sasa Juric·2019·GOTOSasa Juric on what actually makes the BEAM special — isolated processes, message passing, supervision — and how those primitives produce systems that stay up while the world burns around them.
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.
Distributed Systems Are a UX Problem
Tyler Treat·2018·QConTreat reframes consistency, latency, and partial failure as user-facing concerns — and shows what good distributed-system UX looks like.