Peter Bailis

@pbailis

Data management and distribüted systems; now: UC Berkeley ABD Ph.D. visiting MIT; 2016: assistant professor, Stanford CS

Cambridge, MA // Palo Alto, CA
Joined August 2011

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    On software design documentation at small companies:

  2. This has been a fun talk to write. There are some super cool connections to accessible design, optimization theory, the Kool-Aid Man...

  3. I'm talking at StrangeLoop on Friday about how designing for worst-case behavior can improve average-case behavior:

  4. Maybe this is just a consequence of popularity -- that, at scale, people forget the details, argue about their own interpretations instead.

  5. I'm legitimately curious whether a less pithy but more precise choice of acronym for either would have had the same, impressive impact.

  6. An interesting trade-off: imprecise but "intuitive" acronyms like ACID and CAP popularize important concepts but generate endless confusion.

  7. The Girls in Science book series is a great idea done well -- just had a chance to read "Cool Women Who Code."

  8. "A simple text matching search...performs admirably when PageRank prioritizes the results (demo available at )."

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    Super excited to be featured in 's Girls in Science series. Book: Series:

  10. . Retry logic can be non-intuitive, non-idiomatic. has interesting commentary:

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    We have a data crisis, and it's going to get worse. Is there any way out of the fire swamp??

  12. . wrote an amazing series on problems in modern DBMSs, including weak isolation and integrity violations

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    "Feral Concurrency Control: An Empirical Investigation of Modern Application Integrity" - Bailis '15

  14. Peter Bailis followed , , and
    • @databasescaling

      Databases, libraries, operating systems, kernels & algorithms: these are the things I love. CTO . Founder . Technologist & Engineer.

    • @ryan_p_adams

      Computer Science Professor, Machine Learning Researcher , Entrepreneur, Podcaster, Dad, Sports Fan

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    "The database system should disappear into the background. I don't think about gravity when running!" - Arnab

  16. The on interaction is so energetic and is such a breath of fresh air. The DB community needs more panels with junior folks.

  17. Systems/DB researcher applying for the NSF GRFP? I wrote a short post and shared my materials:

  18. Especially if I were an XML fanatic from the glory days of semi-structured data mgmt research, I'd be all over JSON data storage.

  19. Given immense prior work, excitement re: semi-structured data and XML, the DB community has a huge opportunity to capitalize on doc stores.

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