CortenMM: Efficient Memory Management with Strong Correctness Guarantees — SOSP 2025 Paper Review
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A review of CortenMM, a new OS memory manager that eliminates VMA bottlenecks and enables scalable, provably correct memory operations.
Blog posts
2025
Copier: Rethinking Memory Copy as a First-Class OS Service — SOSP 2025 Paper Review
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A concise overview of Copier, SOSP 2025’s asynchronous OS-level memory copy service.
TiDB Hackathon 2022 — Analysis
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A high-level analysis of TiDB Hackathon 2022, examining its open-ended, innovation-driven challenges across TiDB/TiKV kernel development, distributed-systems engineering, and large-scale application design.
Fifth Alibaba Middleware Performance Challenge — Analysis
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A deep-dive analysis of the 5th Alibaba Middleware Performance Challenge, including problem structure, system-level constraints, performance metrics, and architectural implications for distributed middleware systems.
OceanBase Database Competition (3rd Edition) — Analysis
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A complete analysis of the OceanBase Database Competition (3rd Edition), including problem requirements, code implementation, architecture, and key design insights.
Distributed Systems Learning Path
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A complete roadmap for learning distributed systems — from beginner fundamentals to advanced research and open-source engineering.
Database Learning Path
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A structured roadmap for learning databases—from SQL fundamentals to relational engines, NoSQL systems, and advanced internals and research topics.