Meerkat: Achieving Global Consensus Without Leader Bottlenecks
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Meerkat is a new consensus service that uses the QuePaxa algorithm to provide globally consistent data without the availability risks of traditional leader-based protocols.
Distributed Systems
Design and engineering of systems that span multiple machines or processes, including consensus protocols, concurrency control, ACID transactions, state replication, and the trade-offs of coordination at scale.
Reading List
Beyond HTTP: The Need for Durable Transport in Async AI Agents
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As AI agents shift to asynchronous background work, fragile HTTP connections must be replaced by durable, session-based transport to support long-running tasks and seamless multi-device interactions.
Applying Distributed Systems Principles to LLM Teams
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The research advocates for using distributed systems theory as a formal framework to design and evaluate multi-agent LLM teams more effectively.
Terraform State Is a Graph, Not a File
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Stop treating Terraform state like a file—manage it as a graph with ACID transactions to unlock safe concurrency and faster operations.