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This talk distills my 25 years of experience designing distributed systems into a set of practical design hints. Drawing inspiration from Butler Lampson’s classic “Hints for Computer System Design,” the talk offers guiding principles for functionality, performance, and fault tolerance.
Murat Demirbas is a Principal Research Scientist at MongoDB Research. Before joining MongoDB, he was a Principal Applied Scientist at AWS for 3 years, and a Professor of Computer Science at the University at Buffalo (SUNY) for 16 years. His work spans distributed systems and databases, with contributions to hybrid logical clocks, WPaxos, PigPaxos, and Paxos Quorum Reads. He received the NSF CAREER Award in 2008 and the UB School of Engineering Senior Researcher of the Year Award in 2016. Murat writes a widely read blog on distributed systems at http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com, with over 5.6 million views.
