Daily Review: Day Ending in 2020/10/18
Family and Friends Celebrated Elliott’s 1 year birthday. Jess and I are two weeks late but to be fair, the two of us were in the midst of moving the entir...
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Daily Review: Day Ending in 2020/10/15
Family Difficult time comforting Jess when she’s upset. It’s insane but it’s so easy for me to gently console other people (like friends or ev...
Project 3 – Snapshotting my understanding (gRPC)
Unfamiliar Technologies Never heard of or used gRPC. According to their website, it’s a high performance open source RPC framework. I’m wondering if...
Not putting all your eggs in one basket and Daily Review: Day ending in 2020/10/14
Mental Health Best Part(s) of My Day Swinging on the swings with Elliott. She was sitting on my lap, facing my direction, as swung us on the swing back and fort...
Lamport’s Clocks (notes)
Introduction Summary Now that we talked about happened before events, we can talk about lamport clocks Lamport’s Logical Clock Summary A logical clock that each...
What I learned from writing synchronization barriers
Before starting project 2 (for my advanced operating systems course), I took a snapshot of my understanding of synchronization barriers. In retrospect, I’...
What does “invariant partial ordering” mean in Leslie Lamport’s “Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System”
In the conclusion of Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System, Leslie Lamport states that: the concept of “happening before”...
Deadlocking in centralized counting barrier implementation
For project 2 of my advanced operating systems course, I quickly typed up what I thought was a functional simple centralized counting barrier implementation. Ho...
Distributed Systems Introduction notes
The main take away with the introduction to distributed systems lectures is that as system designers, we need to carefully inspect our program and identify what...
What’s the point of the parity flag in the dissemination barrier?
I’m implementating the dissemination barrier (above) in C for my advanced OS course and I’m not quite sure I understand the pseudo code itself. In p...