Fall 2025 Reading List (##201-210)
Here is a list for the Fall 2025 semester. Please join the reading group here: https://discord.gg/VS7J4PAU58. We meet on Thursdays. The schedule is also available on our calendar. | Aleksey Charapko
Here is a list for the Fall 2025 semester. Please join the reading group here: https://discord.gg/VS7J4PAU58. We meet on Thursdays. The schedule is also available on our calendar. | Aleksey Charapko
The last paper we covered in the Distributed Systems Reading group discussed CPUs, data centers, scheduling, and carbon emissions—we read “The Sunk Carbon Fallacy: Rethinking Carbon Footprint Metrics for Effective Carbon-Aware Scheduling.” Below is my improvised presentation of this paper for the reading group. | Aleksey Charapko
Last week, we read “Databases in the Era of Memory-Centric Computing” CIDR’25 paper in our reading group. This paper argues that the rising cost of main memory and lagging improvement in memory bandwidth do not bode well for traditional computing architectures centered around computing devices (i.e., CPUs). As CPUs get more cores, the memory bandwidth […]| Aleksey Charapko
Last week we read “OLTP Through the Looking Glass 16 Years Later: Communication is the New Bottleneck” CIDR’25 paper by Xinjing Zhou, Viktor Leis, Xiangyao Yu, Michael Stonebraker. This paper revisits the original “OLTP Through the Looking Glass, and What We Found There” paper and examines the bottlenecks in modern OLTP databases.| Aleksey Charapko
We have been doing a Zoom distributed systems paper reading group for 5 years and have covered around 190 papers. This semester, we should reach the milestone of 200 papers. Over the years, my commitment to the group has varied — at some point, I was writing paper reviews, and more recently, I’ve had less […]| Aleksey Charapko
Occam’s Razor for Distributed Protocols [SoCC’24]| Aleksey Charapko
Without further ado, here is the list:| Aleksey Charapko
This is a list of papers for the DistSys reading group summer term. The schedule is also available on our Google Calendar.| Aleksey Charapko
A CloudScale Characterization of Remote Procedure Calls [SOSP’23]| Aleksey Charapko
For the 153rd reading group paper, we read something very different this time: “Deep Note: Can Acoustic Interference Damage the Availability of Hard Disk Storage in Underwater Data Centers?” This HotStorage short paper explores the possibility of using soundwaves to attack underwater data centers. In particular, the paper shows how magnetic disks can be disrupted by sound, causing them to degrade or even outright stop working, leading to failures of whatever systems were relying on these ...| Aleksey Charapko
Fall 2025 Reading List (##201-210)| charap.co
