C5: Cloned Concurrency Control that Always Keeps Up, by Jeffrey Helt, Abhinav Sharma, Daniel J. Abadi, Wyatt Lloyd, Jose M. Faleiro, in VLDB 2022. The authors describe a useful optimization for primary-backup replication, but they don’t break new ground. Here’s a video presentation I made to the DistSys Reading Group about this paper, and my written review below. --- I don’t have images of clones or anything apropos, but it’s snowing in New Paltz, NY so I’ll try to entertain you wit...