CSR Tale #8 comes from Prof. Barzan Mozafari at Michigan. Barzan leads a research group designing the next generation of scalable databases using advanced statistical models. Recently, their VATS lock scheduling algorithm was adopted by…

I figured it was time I pitched in with a story of my own. This is the story of how our PebblesDB key-value store came to be built and published at SOSP 17. The story also involves my post-doc experience at VMware Research.

I sat down with Heidi Howard to talk about her graduate school experience, the summer she spent at VMware Research in 2016 working on Flexible Paxos, which enjoyed explosive success, and her…

By Amogh Akshintala

This story is structured as a conversation between one of our editors, Vijay Chidambaram, and Prof. Christopher Rossbach. Chris is an Assistant Professor at UT Austin and Senior…

CSRTale #9 comes from two award-winning graduate students in Wisconsin, Ramnatthan Alagappan and Aishwarya Ganesan. Ram and Aishwarya work with Prof. Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau and Prof. Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau in the Advanced Systems Lab. In this…

Our first #CSRTale comes from Rob Johnson, a senior research in the VMware Research Group. Previously, Rob was at Stonybrook University, where he collaborated with Michael Bender and Don Porter to work at the intersection of systems and theory. Rob’s work has the nice flavor of using…

CSRTale #13 comes from Dr Martin Kleppmann, a researcher in distributed systems at Cambridge University and author of the book, Designing Data-Intensive Applications. In this CSRTale, Martin tells the story behind the…

CSR Tales goes international in this post, with our third tale coming from Prof. Javier Bustos-Jiménez in Chile. Javier is the director of the NIC Labs at the University of Chile. His research interests include complex networks, internet…