Best software engineering papers of 5 years of SCKRK More details on http://www.meetup.com/sc-krk/events/229737298/

1. Meeting #100
2010 - 2016

2. Today’s Sponsors
http://lightbend.com && http://akka.io http://www.ocadotechnology.com

3. SCKRK initiatives

4. Why a reading club?
“The smartest person in the room
is a piece of paper.”

5. Long time member
Akka @ Lightbend
Various User Groups
Today’s hosts
Adam Pohorecki
Founder
Konrad `ktoso` Malawski Łukasz Dubiel
Long time member
Tomasz `LAFK` Borek
Long time member
Loves learning
Various User Groups

6. Schedule
Top 5 SCKRK whitepapers
Community Award
“Best whitepaper of the
last 5 years of SCKRK”
Discussions
Please feel free to stay and
discuss the winners/losers!
19:00 ... 19:30 ... ... ... 20:45 ... ... 21:00 ... ...
Honorable mentions
Special articles which did not
make it into the top 5

7. Top 5 papers
of 5 years of SCKRK

8. Top #5: A Note on Distributed Computing
http://ftp.isu.edu.tw/pub/Unix/Desktop/KDE/devel/smli_tr-94-29.pdf

9. Top #5: B-Queue

10. Top #5: Domain Driven Design Quickly

11. Top #5: Domain Driven Design Quickly
Plus: SAGAS! http://www.cs.cornell.edu/andru/cs711/2002fa/reading/sagas.pdf

12. Top #5: Hierarchical Temporal Memory

13. Top #4: Online, Asynchronous Schema Change in F1

14. Top #4: BitCoin

15. Top #4: Mock Roles not Objects

16. Top #4: Conflict-free Replicated Data Types
Conflict-free Replicated Data Types. M. Shapiro, N. Preguiça, C. Baquero, M. Zawirski (France, October 2011)

17. Top #3: Guide: Writing Testable Code
1. Everybody writes tests, not everybody
does Big Data or epic scalability
2. Good points!
a. Class does too much
b. Constructor does real work
c. Digging into collaborators
3. Well-structured!

18. Top #3: Guide: Writing Testable Code

19. Top #3: Raft

20. Top #3: Life beyond Distributed Transactions

21. Top #3: Warp: Lightweight Multi-Key Transactions...

22. Top #2: Access Path Selection in a RDBMS

23. Top #2: Out of the Tar Pit

24. Top #2: Out of the Tar Pit

25. Top #2 - Differential Synchronization

26. Top #2: BASE - an ACID alternative
2PC
ACID
CAP

27. Top #1: “The Paxos Saga” / Paxos Made Simple

28. Top #1: “The Paxos Saga” / Paxos Made Simple
- Time, Clocks and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System (Lamport, 1978)
- Reaching Agreement in the Presence of Faults (Lamport, 1980)
- The Byzantine Generals Problem (Lamport, 1982)
- FLP Impossibility Result (Fisher, Lynch, Paterson, 1985)
- The Part-Time Parliament (Lamport, 1998)
“My attempt at inserting some humor into the subject was a dismal failure. [...]
None of them noticed any connection between this question and the Paxos
algorithm. ”
- Paxos Made Simple (Lamport, 2001)
“The Paxos algorithm, when presented in plain English, is very simple.”
- Cheap Paxos (Lamport, 2004)
- Fast Paxos (Lamport, 2006)
- (Google) Chubby ⇐ my first whitepaper (Mike Burrows, 2006)
- (Google) Paxos Made Live (Chandra et al, 2007)
- Paxos Made Moderately Complex (Renesse et al, 2015)
- …
- “Raft – in search of an understandable consensus algorithm” (Ongaro, 2013)
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/pubs.html

29. Top #1 - Memory Barriers

30. Top #1: One VM To Rule Them All

31. Top #1: One VM To Rule Them All

32. Top #1 - Amazon Dynamo

33. Honorable mentions

34. Honorable mentions

35. Honorable mentions
1. Most TXT-like
2. One of earliest holy wars we had
3. Little Endians - LSB, Big - MSB
4. Machines matter, net matters, details
matter
5. And... humorous!

36. Honorable mentions
Coincidence? :-)
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/ien/ien137.txt

37. Honorable mentions

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46. Honorable mentions: Maglev
http://research.google.com/pubs/pub44824.html

47. Honorable mentions: Fallacies of Dist. Comp.
https://blogs.oracle.com/jag/resource/Fallacies.html

48. Community
TOP 5 Whitepapers:

49. Community Award #5: Writing Testable Code

50. Community Award #4: The CAP Theorem

51. Community Award #3: MapReduce

52. Community Award #2: Working Effectively with Legacy Code

53. Community Award #1: Fallacies of Distributed Computing Explained

54. Thanks!
Hope you’ll stay to discuss a bit!
See you next time,
sckrk.com