Distributed Computing @ OMSCS over – what a ride!
Last semester, I decided to enroll in the brand spanking new Georgia Tech’s Distributed Computing course offered for the first time (as part of OMSCS) thi...
Distributed Computing CS7210 Distributed Computing – A course review
Distributed Computing was offered in the OMSCS program for the first time this past semester (i.e. Spring 2021) and when the course opened up for registration, ...
Front-yard overseeding journey
Our front yard needs work. About 3 weeks ago, I made my first attempt at overseeding and although a couple seeds germinated, the lawn was left with lots of bare...
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 ...