The Log-Structured Merge-Tree (LSM-Tree)
A engineering milestone from 1996 whose ideas keep shaping modern data infrastructure.
Category · 2 papers · 3 articles
Tutorials
Walkthroughs of LSM-trees, CRDTs, and the data structures behind modern storage engines.
Papers
2 foundational papers
CRDTs: Consistency without concurrency control
A engineering milestone from 2011 whose ideas keep shaping modern data infrastructure.
Blog articles
3 essays
How to Run a Distributed Systems Paper Club: A Practical Guide
Distributed systems are the invisible backbone of modern technology, powering everything from your favorite social media app to global financial markets. Yet, truly understanding them — their complexities, trade-offs, an...
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Lexicon: 30 Distributed-Database Terms (2026)
Distributed-database research papers are treasure maps drawn in jargon. Without a shared vocabulary, the same term can mean different things to different systems—CAP theorem's 'consistency' is not the same in Dynamo's [e...
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NoSQL Summer Paper Club — 2026 Edition
NoSQL systems continue to underpin the data layer for nearly every large-scale service, yet the foundational papers that defined their trade-offs are often read in isolation. In 2026 the same questions of partition toler...
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