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Jack Vanlightly

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Jack Vanlightly's technical articles on distributed systems, formal verification, consensus, shared logs, and event streaming.

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  • The AtomicLog + LogDrive: Strong vs weak sealing #DistributedSystems #Tech #Databases

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    Aug 28, 2026

  • The LogDrive: Flexible Composition Through Abstraction in Shared Logs #DistributedSystems #ComputerScience #Tech

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    Aug 25, 2026

  • Apache Kafka performance #1 - linger.ms #Kafka #DistributedSystems #Performance

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    Jul 7, 2026

  • 1BRC on a Threadripper 9980X #Tech #Data #Performance

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    Jul 1, 2026

  • Benchmarking Hardwood 1.0 on a Threadripper 9980X #DistributedSystems #Benchmarking #Data

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    Jun 30, 2026

  • Kafka Share Groups - Pathological fetch waits with record_limit #Kafka #DistributedSystems #Tech

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    Jun 24, 2026

  • Can We Agree on a Storage/Workload Architecture Taxonomy? #DistributedSystems #DataArchitecture #Tech

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    Jun 22, 2026

  • Raise the ambition threshold #AI #Tech #DistributedSystems

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    Jun 19, 2026

  • Kafka Share Groups and Parallelizing Consumption - Part 3: Client-local parallelism #Kafka #DistributedSystems #Tech

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    Jun 10, 2026

  • Broker-Visible vs Client-Local Parallelism #DistributedSystems #Kafka #Tech

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    Jun 4, 2026

  • Kafka Share Groups and Parallelizing Consumption - Part 2: Producer Batches and share.acquire.mode #Kafka #DistributedSystems #Tech

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    May 27, 2026

  • Kafka Share Groups and Parallelizing Consumption -- Part 1: Tuning max.poll.records #Kafka #DistributedSystems #Tech

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    May 25, 2026

  • Benchmarking Apache Kafka Consumer Groups vs Share Groups (overhead test) #Kafka #DistributedSystems #Tech

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    May 22, 2026

  • Introducing Dimster, a performance benchmarking tool for Apache Kafka #Kafka #DistributedSystems #Benchmarking

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    May 20, 2026

  • The Three Durable Function Forms #DistributedSystems #SoftwareEngineering #Programming

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    Dec 10, 2025

  • The Durable Function Tree - Part 2 #DistributedSystems #SoftwareEngineering #ComputerScience

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    Dec 4, 2025

  • The Durable Function Tree - Part 1 #DistributedSystems #SoftwareEngineering #ComputerScience

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    Dec 4, 2025

  • Demystifying Determinism in Durable Execution #DistributedSystems #Tech #ComputerScience

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    Nov 24, 2025

  • Have your Iceberg Cubed, Not Sorted: Meet Qbeast, the OTree Spatial Index #Data #Tech #OpenSource

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    Nov 19, 2025

  • How Would You Like Your Iceberg Sir? Stream or Batch Ordered? #DataEngineering #DistributedSystems #Streaming

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    Nov 5, 2025