Marc Brooker's Blog - Marc's Blog
I've been writing code, reading code, and living vicariously through computers for as long as I can remember. I like to build things that work. I also dabble in machining, welding, cooking and skiing.
- By Marc Brooker
- Based in United States of America
- Roughly 15 posts per year
- First post on
Posts per year
| Year starting | Posts |
|---|---|
| 2014 | 3 |
| 2015 | 10 |
| 2016 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 |
| 2018 | 3 |
| 2019 | 6 |
| 2020 | 12 |
| 2021 | 12 |
| 2022 | 17 |
| 2023 | 18 |
| 2024 | 13 |
Any gaps could be due to errors when fetching the blog’s feed.
Most recent posts
Garbage Collection and Metastability Cleaning up is hard to do. I’ve written a lot about stability and metastability, but haven’t touched on one other common cause of metastability in large-scale systems: garbage collection. GC is …
Resource Management in Aurora Serverless Systems, big and small. My favorite thing about distributed systems is how they allow us to solve problems at multiple levels: single process problems, single machine problems, multi-machine problems, and …
Let’s Consign CAP to the Cabinet of Curiosities CAP? Again? Still? Brewer’s CAP theorem, and Gilbert and Lynch’s formalization of it, is the first introduction to hard trade-offs for many distributed systems engineers. Going by …