Reading

I have always put care and thought into the software I write. In this book Vlad taught me how to put the domain first, and how to make the right architectural decisions.

This book was presented to me at my distributed systems course at NTNU, and it's hands down one of the software books I have enjoyed the most.

Martin taught me all the fundamentals of distributed systems, and I believe the concepts are very well articulated in the book.

Locking, atomicity, and transactions implementations are quite cool. I wanted to learn more.

I did find it quite amusing how most Chubby users are actually using it for performing name resolution...

In this paper Nuno Preguiça explains the fundamental workings of CRDTs in a quite easy and understandable way.

This was another one of my master thesis papers, and it introduced me to real-time distributed systems.

This paper was the foundation for my master's thesis. Joseph and Martin use the best of CRDTs and Operational Transform to propose a faster and better algorithm for single-dimensional lists.

Joseph also has an excellent video on the algorithm.

Distributed debugging and system observability have been favorite topics of mine for a long time.

I found it very interesting to see part of the developments that have led up to the model OpenTelemetry is built on, and how ahead of the industry standard Google was.

It was first at Kubecon Japan 2025 I understood the role, needs, and use of quorum-based leader election. Paxos seemed very daunting at the time, so Raft was the perfect introduction, plus it's also used in etcd :)

The Secret Lives of Data also has a top tier visualization of the Raft algorithm.