Aleksey Charapko

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  • The First Datastore-driven Vehicle

    Aleksey Charapko

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    It is not a secret that procrastination is the favorite activity of most PhD students. I have been procrastinating today, even though my advisor probably wants me to keep writing.  In the midst of my procrastination, I thought: “Why are there self-driving vehicles, but no database-driven vehicles?” As absurd as it sounds, I gave it…

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  • The Light of Voldemort

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    Few month ago I showcased how a single server of Voldemort key-value store sounds.  Sonification is a valid way to monitor systems, and has been used a lot in real applications. Geiger counter would be one of the most well-known examples of a sonified application. In some cases sonification may be the preferred form of…

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  • The Sound of Voldemort

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    Recently at our lab we discussed a fun little project of making distributed systems “play” music. The idea of sonifying a distributed application can be of some benefit for debugging and maintenance, since people have natural ability in recognizing patterns. Of course developer or systems administrators can analyze the logs of their systems and study the…

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