A few years ago, I came across this recommendation letter written for my grandfather in 1942. I keep it around to use as a template when it's time to write recommendation letters myself. image
Migrating another distributed-systems-explained-by-cats^H^H^H^H tapirs thread from Twitter for #TapirTuesday. Let's revisit TAPIR -- the Transactional Application Protocol for Inconsistent Replication -- with the help of some cute and friendly tapirs. (๐Ÿงต) (TAPIR originally appeared in SOSP'15 and TOCS'18, by @npub1a0kf...r42u, Naveen Sharma, Adriana Szekeres, Arvind Krishnamurthy, and myself) #DistributedSystems #systems #transactions #scicomm #tapirs #DistributedSystemsExplainedByCats image
What Mastodon really needs is some bunk bed #cats. image