Henry Robinson on No compromises: distributed transactions with consistency, availability, and performance

Gorka Guardiola on Paths, Trees and Flowers

January Meetups

We have another great line-up of meet-ups scheduled for January across a number of our chapters:

Bangalore 1/2: Shor's Algorithm Part

Bangalore 1/9: Shor's Algorithm Part

Bucharest 1/11: January Meetup

Vienna 1/14: Lisp

Seattle 1/14: : The Dataflow Model and Millwheel: Fault tolerant stream processing

Bangalore 1/17: Meet Dr. Shriram Krishnamurthi

Saint Louis 1/18: Magnetic Levitation & Guidance

Madrid 1/20: Path, Trees and Flowers

London 1/20: Tom Crayford on 'An History and Evaluation of System R'

Montréal 1/20: Better Bitmap Performance with Roaring Bitmaps

Winnipeg 1/20: Communication in the Presence of Noise

San Francisco 1/21: Henry Robinson on "No compromises: distributed transactions with consistency.."

Seattle 1/27: .: Scalable Atomic Visibility with RAMP Transactions

Marina del Rey 1/27: Bill Berry on No Silver Bullet

New York 1/28: Ramsey Nasser on PushPull++

Nathan Taylor / Chris Meiklejohn on OS Scalability & Chain Replication

The Papers: Christopher Meiklejohn's A Brief History of Chain Replication

Meetup Spotlight: http://bit.ly/1QelqoU

On December 10, 2015, Christopher Meikljohn is presenting at Papers We Love - San Francisco on the topic (and history) of Chain Replication, a data replication technique that "promises a high throughput, linearizable, robust replication technique with minimal overhead to tolerate failures with only f+1 nodes[0]."