Issue #143
Why not Mars, TikTok's secret Sauce, Databases in 2022, Planetary scale database and Happy New Year! :)
Dear Reader,
I hope you spent holidays with your family and friends. I went on trip with my family and team.
Wishing you and your family a very happy new year!
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
— Richard Feynman
Posts
Generative Problem Solving with Large Language Models — #PeterNorvig
Has your password been pwned? Or, how I almost failed to search a 37 GB text file in under 1 millisecond — #AdrianDamian
TikTok’s Secret Sauce - TikTok’s algorithm is ordinary. Its real innovation is something else. — #ArvindNarayanan
Userspace isn't slow, some kernel interfaces are! — #JordanWhited #JamesTucker
Abstraction is Expensive — #NimaBadizadegan
5000x faster CRDTs: An Adventure in Optimization — #SephGentle
Google Zanzibar Through Our Eyes — #JakeMoshenko
You might not need a CRDT — #Paul Butler
Fast memcpy, A System Design — #RichardSites
Scaling down Deep Learning — #SamGreydanus
Load Shedding in Distributed Systems — #SofwanLawal
Why not Mars — #MaciejCegłowski
Databases in 2022: A Year in Review — #AndyPavlo
You Want Modules, Not Microservices — #TedNeward
The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI — #MaggieAppleton
Challenging algorithms and data structures every programmer should try —#AustinHenley
Books
Foundations of Databases — #SergeAbiteboul #Richard Hull #VictorVianu
HelloSilicon — #Alexander-von-Below
Videos
Formal Modeling and Analysis of Distributed Systems by Ankush Desai
The Evolution of a Planetary-scale Distributed Database by Kevin Scaldeferri