Jack Vanlightly

Analysis Archive

Jack Vanlightly

Analysis Archive

{ dist sys, formal verification, event streaming }

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Mar 13, 2025

Log Replication Disaggregation Survey - Apache Pulsar and BookKeeper

Mar 13, 2025

Mar 13, 2025

Feb 21, 2025

Log Replication Disaggregation Survey - Kafka Replication Protocol

Feb 21, 2025

Feb 21, 2025

Feb 19, 2025

Log Replication Disaggregation Survey - Neon and MultiPaxos

Feb 19, 2025

Feb 19, 2025

Feb 17, 2025

Towards composable data platforms

Feb 17, 2025

Feb 17, 2025

Feb 10, 2025

How to disaggregate a log replication protocol

Feb 10, 2025

Feb 10, 2025

Feb 6, 2025

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

Feb 6, 2025

Feb 6, 2025

Feb 5, 2025

An Introduction to Virtual Consensus in Delos

Feb 5, 2025

Feb 5, 2025

Feb 3, 2025

Why Snowflake wants streaming

Feb 3, 2025

Feb 3, 2025

Jan 16, 2025

AI Agents in 2025

Jan 16, 2025

Jan 16, 2025

Dec 9, 2024

On 1 million page views

Dec 9, 2024

Dec 9, 2024

Dec 6, 2024

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

Dec 6, 2024

Dec 6, 2024

Dec 5, 2024

An introduction to symmetry in TLA+

Dec 5, 2024

Dec 5, 2024

Nov 26, 2024

Dismantling ELT: The Case for Graphs, Not Silos

Nov 26, 2024

Nov 26, 2024

Nov 21, 2024

The Law of Large Numbers: A Foundation for Statistical Modeling in Distributed Systems

Nov 21, 2024

Nov 21, 2024

Nov 19, 2024

Obtaining statistical properties through modeling and simulation

Nov 19, 2024

Nov 19, 2024

Nov 13, 2024

Incremental Jobs and Data Quality Are On a Collision Course - Part 2 - The Way Forward

Nov 13, 2024

Nov 13, 2024

Nov 13, 2024

Incremental Jobs and Data Quality Are On a Collision Course - Part 1 - The Problem

Nov 13, 2024

Nov 13, 2024

Nov 5, 2024

On writing and getting from zero to done

Nov 5, 2024

Nov 5, 2024

Nov 2, 2024

Learning first that you can learn

Nov 2, 2024

Nov 2, 2024

Oct 31, 2024

Forget the table format war; it’s open vs closed that counts

Oct 31, 2024

Oct 31, 2024

Oct 28, 2024

The ultimate guide to table format internals - all my writing so far

Oct 28, 2024

Oct 28, 2024

Oct 24, 2024

The teacher's nemesis

Oct 24, 2024

Oct 24, 2024

Oct 21, 2024

The curse of Conway and the data space

Oct 21, 2024

Oct 21, 2024

Sep 26, 2024

Table format interoperability, future or fantasy?

Sep 26, 2024

Sep 26, 2024

Sep 19, 2024

Table format comparisons - Change queries and CDC

Sep 19, 2024

Sep 19, 2024

Sep 11, 2024

BYOC, not “the future of cloud services” but a pillar of an everywhere platform

Sep 11, 2024

Sep 11, 2024

Aug 23, 2024

Constraints breed innovation and so does tenacity

Aug 23, 2024

Aug 23, 2024

Aug 22, 2024

Table format comparisons - Streaming ingest of row-level operations

Aug 22, 2024

Aug 22, 2024

Aug 13, 2024

Table format comparisons - Append-only tables and incremental reads

Aug 13, 2024

Aug 13, 2024

Aug 7, 2024

Table format comparisons - How do the table formats represent the canonical set of files?

Aug 7, 2024

Aug 7, 2024

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