About

Hi! I’m JH H, an aspiring PhD student interested in distributed systems and databases.

I enjoy thinking about how to:

• design and build reliable, fault-tolerant distributed systems, and
• build data-intensive services that are scalable, observable, and easy to operate.

My current interests include:

• consensus and replication protocols for strongly consistent systems
• storage and index structures for high-throughput workloads
• practical tooling for debugging and benchmarking distributed systems

This website has three main sections:

• Learning Path: how I learned distributed systems and databases, and the resources I found helpful.
• Paper Notes: my reading notes and commentary on research papers in distributed systems and data management.
• Competitions: write-ups of contests, projects, and benchmark challenges I participated in.

You can find my CV here.