Discovery Loop: Automating the Future of Scientific Discovery
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Discovery Loop is automating the scientific method through AI and massive-scale computing to accelerate global innovation and solve grand engineering challenges.
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
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.
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.