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From Stock Markets To Ledgers, Part III: Time
I find Feynman’s quote that “nobody understands quantum mechanics” a bit silly.
Nov 19
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Alvaro Duran
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Raft Consensus in 2,000 words
Understanding the Understandable Consensus Protocol
Nov 12
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Alvaro Duran
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From Stock Markets to Ledgers, Part II: Fault-tolerance
Paxos is Not-Invented-Here consensus. That's why Raft is succeeding.
Nov 5
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Alvaro Duran
From Stock Markets To Ledgers, Part I: Fairness
Why fairness, not speed, is the ultimate validation of stock markets
Oct 29
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Alvaro Duran
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How To Prevent Cache Stampedes
Think cache invalidation and naming things are hard?
Oct 8
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Alvaro Duran
CQRS Is Just Balances And Records
Ledgers are hard because you're forced to separate reads from writes
Sep 24
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Alvaro Duran
Richard Pryor Stole a lot of Half Cents and Bought a Ferrari
Why Floats and Decimals as Money Make Illegal States Representable
Aug 27
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Alvaro Duran
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Caching In the Past Is a Rare Event
How domain knowledge turns caching into an easy problem
Mar 12
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Alvaro Duran
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If Amazon Can't Figure Out How To Make Money From Blockchain Databases, Nobody Can
Amazon is sunsetting QLDB; if you're a user, your only remaining option is to build it.
Feb 5
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Alvaro Duran
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A Tale of Two Ledgers
How the boundaries between the conflicting ledger modes inform the design of a ledger that could do both.
Jan 15
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Alvaro Duran
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The Intuition of Money
An effective set of concepts for building money software
Jan 8
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Alvaro Duran
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How Modern Treasury Invented Event Locking
Race conditions are the nastiest problem in money software. They've forced engineers to make wrong design choices. Not anymore.
Nov 20, 2024
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Alvaro Duran
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