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Paper #191: Occam’s Razor for Distributed Protocols
We have been doing a Zoom distributed systems paper reading group for 5 years and have covered around 190 papers. This semester, we should reach the milestone of 200 papers. Over the years, my commitment to the group has varied — at some point, I was writing paper reviews, and more recently, I’ve had less…
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Spring 2025 Reading List (Papers ##191-200)
This is a list of papers for the DistSys reading group Spring 2025 term. The schedule is also available on our Google Calendar.
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Fall 2024 Reading Group Papers (Papers ##181-190)
Without further ado, here is the list:
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Pile of Eternal Rejections: Revisiting Mencius SMR
Last time, I briefly talked about my pile of eternal rejections. Today, I will describe another paper that has been sitting in that pile for quite some time. It seems like this particular work, done by my student Bocheng Cui, has found its home, though, and by the skin of its teeth, it will appear…
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System’s Guy Teaching Game Development…
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This semester, I taught a class that I am extremely unqualified to teach. It was super fun! We are a relatively small university and a small CS department, so offering “fun” classes for our undergraduate students can be challenging, especially if such “fun” courses do not align well with anyone’s research. Despite many students getting…
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Summer 2024 Reading Group Papers (Papers ##171-180)
This is a list of papers for the DistSys reading group summer term. The schedule is also available on our Google Calendar.
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Pile of Eternal Rejections: The Cost of Garbage Collection for State Machine Replication
I have a “pile” of papers that continuously get rejected from any conference. All these papers, according to the reviews, “lack novelty,” and therefore are deemed “not interesting” by the reviewing experts. There are some things in common in these papers — they are either observational or rely on old and proven techniques to solve a problem or improve a system/algorithm. Jokingly, I call this set of papers the “pile of…
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Spring 2024 Reading Group Papers (##161-170)
Below is the reading group schedule for the upcoming winter term. The schedule is also available in our Google Calendar. Are you interested in joining the reading group? It is simple, join our Slack to get all the reading group updates and invites.
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Reading Group #153. Deep Note: Can Acoustic Interference Damage the Availability of Hard Disk Storage in Underwater Data Centers?
For the 153rd reading group paper, we read something very different this time: “Deep Note: Can Acoustic Interference Damage the Availability of Hard Disk Storage in Underwater Data Centers?” This HotStorage short paper explores the possibility of using soundwaves to attack underwater data centers. In particular, the paper shows how magnetic disks can be disrupted…
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Reading Group #152. Blueprint: A Toolchain for Highly-Reconfigurable Microservice Applications
The 152nd reading group meeting continued the microservices discussion started in the 151st paper. We read the “Blueprint: A Toolchain for Highly-Reconfigurable Microservice Applications” SOSP’23 paper by Vaastav Anand, Deepak Garg, Antoine Kaufmann, and Jonathan Mace. The premise of the Blueprint is the separation of the app’s logic and most of the infrastructure/ops concerns. This…
I am an assistant professor of computer science at the University of New Hampshire. My research interests lie in distributed systems, distributed consensus, fault tolerance, reliability, and scalability.
@AlekseyCharapko
aleksey.charapko@unh.edu