Consistency

• The Quiet Calculus of Probabilistic Commutativity · 2025-09-27

  A practical calculus for quantifying when non-commutative operations in distributed systems can be safely executed without heavyweight coordination.

• Linearizability and Serializability: A Formal Hierarchy of Consistency Models · 2025-01-28

  Build a rigorous understanding of consistency models from linearizability to eventual consistency, with formal definitions, counterexamples, and the practical implications for distributed database design.

• Merkle Trees and Content‑Addressable Storage · 2020-08-17

  From Git to distributed object stores: how Merkle DAGs enable integrity, deduplication, and efficient sync.

• Tuning the Dial: Adaptive Consistency at Planet Scale · 2020-03-11

  Inside the engineering of databases that adjust consistency on the fly without breaking user trust.