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Last updated about 2 months ago

Log Replication Disaggregation Survey - Apache Pulsar and BookKeeper

about 2 months ago

In this latest post of the disaggregated log replication survey, we’re going...

Log Replication Disaggregation Survey - Kafka Replication Protocol

3 months ago

In this post, we’re going to look at the Kafka Replication Protocol...

Log Replication Disaggregation Survey - Neon and MultiPaxos

3 months ago

Over the next series of posts, we'll explore how various real-world systems...

Towards composable data platforms

3 months ago

This is post contains a mix of technology insight with some Confluent...

How to disaggregate a log replication protocol

3 months ago

This post continues my series looking at log replication protocols, within the...

Steady on! Separating Failure-Free Ordering from Fault-Tolerant Consensus

3 months ago

"True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A...

An Introduction to Virtual Consensus in Delos

3 months ago

This is the first of a number of posts looking at log...

Why Snowflake wants streaming

3 months ago

Disclaimer: I am a researcher and advisor at Confluent, specializing in technology...

AI Agents in 2025

4 months ago

This blog post is based on the AI Agents section of Humans...

On 1 million page views

5 months ago

I just read Phil Eaton’s post on reaching the 1 million page...

To be atomic or non-atomic, that is the question (Fizzbee)

5 months ago

After posting my last Kafka transactions diary entry, JP (the Fizzbee maintainer)...

An introduction to symmetry in TLA+

5 months ago

Symmetry reduction in TLA+ is a clever trick for cutting down the...