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Optimizing Kernel Context and Cache Locality for Multi-Tenant Serverless
There's a number you need to see. It's been staring at us from dashboards in AWS, Cloudflare, and every hyperscaler on the planet for the better part of a decade: the 200ms p99 cold start.
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CRISPR-Powered Bio-Computational Surveillance
For the last decade, the mainstream narrative surrounding CRISPR has been dominated by a single metaphor: "Molecular Scissors." We’ve been told that CRISPR-Cas…
100M Writes Per Second via Hierarchical Consensus
Imagine this: It’s 3:00 AM, and you’re looking at a Grafana dashboard. A global event—perhaps a massive product drop or a sudden viral surge—is hammering your…
Engineering Exabyte-Scale Vector Search
Imagine every frame of every video on YouTube, every snippet of code on GitHub, and every digitized book in the Library of Congress converted into a high-dimen…
Proving Correctness in Million-Node Sharded Consensus
It’s 3:14 AM. Your pager goes off. A single shard in your global distributed database has reported a checksum mismatch. Ten minutes later, a second shard follo…
Betting Big on Formal Verification for Distributed KV Stores
It’s 3:14 AM. Your phone buzzes. PagerDuty. The alert isn’t a simple CPU spike or a failed disk. It’s the dreaded split-brain scenario: two nodes, both convinc…
Hierarchical LSM-Trees for Write-Intensive Geo-Distributed Storage
Imagine this: You’re sitting in San Francisco, running a globally distributed database. A user in Tokyo just swiped their credit card, a sensor in Frankfurt re…