Distributed Computing – Goodbye and thanks for the wonderful semester
I just finished Spring 2021 at Georgia Tech OMSCS and published a farewell note on the classroom’s forum (i.e. Piazza platform) and would like to share th...
My first lawn seeds germinating!
After watching dozens of YouTube videos on lawn care, I decided about two weeks ago to overseed the front lawn and water the grass twice a day (I really used to...
iperf3 3 and TCP maximum segment size (MSS)
The above diagram I diagrammed illustrates the impact to a network packet when setting the maximum segment size in iperf3. With an MSS of 1436, the segment (i.e...
Got the COVID-19 Pfizer vaccination
What did we do? Jess and I received our first dose of the Pfizer vaccination, our second dose scheduled for 3 weeks from now. We were able to get the vaccinatio...
PAXOS made moderately complex – slots
In the paper “PAXOS made moderately complex”, the authors introduce unfamiliar concepts not mentioned in the original PAXOS paper, concepts such as ...
PAXOS – I’m coming for you!
I’m now half way through Distributed Computing course at Georgia Tech and us students are now tackling the penultimate project: building a replicated stat...
Understanding linearizability
I’m preparing for my Distributing Systems midterm and I was struggling to understand the differences between serializability and linearizability (why are ...
Speaking up for others
Ever since I was little boy, if any of my friends were bullied or picked on, and I noticed they couldn’t defend themselves, I would speak up on their beha...
Distributed system snapshots: consistent vs inconsistent cuts
In “Consistent Global States of Distributed Systems: Fundamental Concepts and Mechanisms”, the authors propose capturing a distributed system’...
COVID-19 stunting Elliott’s social skills
Like almost every other parent, my wife and I are doing our best to shelter our 16-month year old daughter, Elliott, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, us p...