Hello time travelers, the most difficult moments for clocks are the leap seconds. Additional to leap years we also have seconds that are injected into our time system from time to time (pun intended :P).…
Category: Weekly CS Paper
The network time protocol
Hallo vrienden, the internet time protocol (NTP) is the basis of time synchronization in computer networks. This weeks paper explains the design principles behind it. As the paper is form 1991 you will find some…
Time is relative
Happy new year everyone, during the holidays I did think about my life as well as the past and future of human kind….just kidding 😉 But I went down the rabbit whole in one of…
Reaching distributed consensus
Hallo ihr lieben, this weeks paper came to me trough a reply to the Bitcoin paper in the Telegram group. One member did point out that Bitcoin is one of the first widely used technologies…
Winning in the Casino by solving the Multi-Armed Bandit Problem
Hey upcoming data science expert, this weeks topic caught my interest as I overheard some colleagues from the machine learning department. Multi-armed bandit theory is a quite old math problem from the 80s with still…
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The birth of Bitcoin
拝啓, (Japanese as Satoshi Nakamoto claims to be from Japan) this weeks topic is more on the hipster side of things: Bitcoin. Everyone is talking again about it as the price is rallying, but how…
“Never change a running system” is not an option anymore: Introduction of Chaos Engineering
Witam mojego ulubionego abonenta, this weeks topic is about my favorite devops/SRE hype topic: Chaos Engineering. With intentionally introducing chaos and failure into your systems you ensure that developers always think about the failure case…
Conflict-free replicated data types to archive eventual consistency
Hola persona grandiosa, after last weeks topic on the CAP theorem, this week is a lot more practical. A conflict-free replicated data type (CRDT) helps you build a distributed system where all nodes converge to…
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CAP theorem
Dear awesome person, this weeks paper is about a topic that can be considered ancient in our CS world. The CAP theorem was first introduced in 2000 and this weeks paper is revisiting it in…
How Firecracker microVMs work
Dear awesome person, I found this week’s paper while working on my thesis on an AWS Lambda related topic. If you ever wondered how the inner workings of AWS Lambda are and how the container/VM…