Hpts Trip Written Report (Days 0 In Addition To 1)
Last week, from sun to Tuesday night, I attended the 16th International Workshop on High Performance Transaction Systems (HPTS). HPTS is an unconventional workshop. "Every ii years, HPTS brings together a lively as well as opinionated grouping of participants to beak over as well as fence the pressing topics that impact today's systems as well as their pattern as well as implementation, specially where scalability is concerned. The workshop includes seat newspaper presentations, panels, moderated discussions, as well as pregnant fourth dimension for casual interaction. The exclusively publications are slide decks yesteryear presenters who lead to postal service them." HPTS is yesteryear invitation exclusively as well as keeps it nether 100 participants. The workshop brings together experts from both manufacture as well as academia thence they mix as well as interact. Looking at the plan committee, you lot tin reckon names of entrepreneurs corporation capitalists (David Cheriton, Sequoia Capital), large spider web companies (Google, Facebook, Salesforce, Cloudera), as well as academics. HPTS is legacy of Jim Gray, as well as amid its regular participants include Mike Stonebraker (Turing Award winner) as well as C. Mohan (IBM).
The Asilomar conference grounds is only on the border of the Monterey Bay. It is overlooking the Pacific, as well as side yesteryear side to white sand dunes (a nature reserve area) as well as a prissy beach. The barracks were ran downward as well as showing their age. There is a dining hall, a split upwards edifice where the HPTS participants dined together equally a grouping (breakfast/lunch/dinner). The talks were held inwards the chapel, some other edifice unopen to the dining hall. The plan was thence total that nosotros would become to our rooms exclusively for sleeping, as well as that likewise briefly. After dinner, in that place was social threescore minutes the get-go night, as well as lightning talks the side yesteryear side 2 nights, all accompanied yesteryear beer as well as wine. And after 9pm, the crowd moved to Director's cottage, a fancy opor-garai household for chatting till midnight, lubed yesteryear whisky, wine, beer (see, the guild is dissimilar this time). Then breakfast starts at 7:30am, rinse as well as repeat each day.
There was a come across as well as greet after the dinner, from 7-9pm, at the chapel. I am genuinely a shy guy, but I made an seek to come across people. When I saw a crowd of 3 or to a greater extent than people, I joined to brain as well as participate. I had prissy conversations alongside the Salesforce crew. I asked them a lot of questions as well as learned a lot.
At 9pm, the grouping moved to the director's cottage. I was really tired from the JFK-SFO flying as well as the 3 threescore minutes drive, thence after hanging some inwards the director's cottage for 10 minutes, I went to bed. Since I was jetlagged I woke upwards at 4am, tried to slumber i time again but woke upwards at six am. I went for a run, for 3.2 miles. It felt good. Sometimes the best means to struggle off exhaustion is yesteryear exercising.
Here are some of the interesting talks from the ii sessions (transactions as well as applications sessions) Mon morning.
The beak "A1 as well as FARM scalable graph database on go yesteryear of a transactional retentiveness layer" from Microsoft Research was close a high functioning graph database platform enabled yesteryear 3 hadware trends: 1. cheap DRAM (currently $8/GB, machines alongside 128GB, container volition jibe to a greater extent than than 100TBs), 2. nonvolatile RAM (DRAM + battery + SSD), as well as 3. fast commodity networks with RDMA becoming available. (Turns out the Microsoft Research grouping has an SOSP fifteen newspaper describing this system.)
Kyle Kingsburry, a estimator security researcher at Stripe, gave a prissy beak on his Jepsen toolkit for blackbox verification of systems yesteryear injecting network partitions as well as testing basic invariants.
"The Quick as well as the Dead" beak yesteryear James Barrese (PayPal) described Paypal engineering scientific discipline initiatives for creating a PAAS platform. These were motivated yesteryear a demand to acquaint rapidly as well as to automate everything.
"From Microservices to Teraservices" talk yesteryear Adrian Cockcroft (Battery Ventures) described how microservices as well as containerazation are useful for accelerating conception yesteryear allowing doing daily releases. Adrian defined a microservice equally a loosely coupled service oriented architecture alongside bounded contexts.
"From Trash to Treasure" beak yesteryear Pat Selinger (Paradata) was close how to construct clean as well as integrate dingy client information alongside duplicates, missing values, corrupted values, as well as invalid values.
I genuinely liked Rodrigo Fonseca's (Brown Univ.) talk on causal metadata tracking inwards distributed systems.
Eric Grosse (Google Security Team) gave an informative beak titled "Security Lessons from the Front Lines".
I volition write close twenty-four hours 2, newly-minted McArthur Genius Chris Re's talk, as well as the overall buzz at HPTS inwards a dyad days. I promise to a greater extent than slides volition live added to HPTS site yesteryear then.
HPTS move as well as venue
HPTS is e'er held at the same venue, Asilomar Conference Grounds, Pacific Grove, CA. My flights sun morn (JetBlue BUF-JFK, JFK-SFO) were smoothen as well as on time. I fifty-fifty acquire to produce some writing on the JFK-SFO flight. Since Asilomar is non easily accessible from SFO (or San Jose airdrome for that matter), I had to rent a car. I used the scenic Route 1 for my drive. It was a 3 threescore minutes drive. I stopped a dyad of times to receive got pictures. I made it to the Asilomar conference pump at 5pm, only plenty fourth dimension to settle earlier the dinner at 6pm.
The Asilomar conference grounds is only on the border of the Monterey Bay. It is overlooking the Pacific, as well as side yesteryear side to white sand dunes (a nature reserve area) as well as a prissy beach. The barracks were ran downward as well as showing their age. There is a dining hall, a split upwards edifice where the HPTS participants dined together equally a grouping (breakfast/lunch/dinner). The talks were held inwards the chapel, some other edifice unopen to the dining hall. The plan was thence total that nosotros would become to our rooms exclusively for sleeping, as well as that likewise briefly. After dinner, in that place was social threescore minutes the get-go night, as well as lightning talks the side yesteryear side 2 nights, all accompanied yesteryear beer as well as wine. And after 9pm, the crowd moved to Director's cottage, a fancy opor-garai household for chatting till midnight, lubed yesteryear whisky, wine, beer (see, the guild is dissimilar this time). Then breakfast starts at 7:30am, rinse as well as repeat each day.
HPTS get-go night
So sun evening, at the get-go dinner, I somehow sat correct side yesteryear side to David Cheriton. He is smart as well as curious. He asked me to explicate close my work, but I wasn't able to communicate the motivation for our hybrid clocks work. I suspect this was partly because nosotros don't portion the same terminology/background, as well as partly because I was unprepared to explicate the motivation from a database manufacture perspective. David was interested as well as persistent as well as pushed to sympathise the work completely, a trait shared yesteryear ultra successful people similar him. After spending 10 minutes, I was the political party to quit, as well as told David that I promise to clarify these inwards the lightning talk, which I proceeded to botch upwards Mon nighttime :-(There was a come across as well as greet after the dinner, from 7-9pm, at the chapel. I am genuinely a shy guy, but I made an seek to come across people. When I saw a crowd of 3 or to a greater extent than people, I joined to brain as well as participate. I had prissy conversations alongside the Salesforce crew. I asked them a lot of questions as well as learned a lot.
At 9pm, the grouping moved to the director's cottage. I was really tired from the JFK-SFO flying as well as the 3 threescore minutes drive, thence after hanging some inwards the director's cottage for 10 minutes, I went to bed. Since I was jetlagged I woke upwards at 4am, tried to slumber i time again but woke upwards at six am. I went for a run, for 3.2 miles. It felt good. Sometimes the best means to struggle off exhaustion is yesteryear exercising.
Mon morn sessions
Pat Helland (Salesforce) opened the workshop. He said that the workshop is a platform for the academicians as well as practitioners of databases interact as well as exchanged ideas. He urged participants to brand goodness role of the xxx infinitesimal java breaks betwixt the sessions. He said that "actually the sessions are in that place to punctuate the breaks" :-). Phil Bernstein (Microsoft) asked us to refrain from alive blogging or tweeting, equally some speakers may beak close confidential technology. Speakers who similar unloosen their slidedecks after a calendar week to live posted at the HPTS website. Checking dorsum I reckon 1/3rds of the slides from talks are posted, as well as almost all the lightning beak slides are posted.Here are some of the interesting talks from the ii sessions (transactions as well as applications sessions) Mon morning.
The beak "A1 as well as FARM scalable graph database on go yesteryear of a transactional retentiveness layer" from Microsoft Research was close a high functioning graph database platform enabled yesteryear 3 hadware trends: 1. cheap DRAM (currently $8/GB, machines alongside 128GB, container volition jibe to a greater extent than than 100TBs), 2. nonvolatile RAM (DRAM + battery + SSD), as well as 3. fast commodity networks with RDMA becoming available. (Turns out the Microsoft Research grouping has an SOSP fifteen newspaper describing this system.)
Kyle Kingsburry, a estimator security researcher at Stripe, gave a prissy beak on his Jepsen toolkit for blackbox verification of systems yesteryear injecting network partitions as well as testing basic invariants.
"The Quick as well as the Dead" beak yesteryear James Barrese (PayPal) described Paypal engineering scientific discipline initiatives for creating a PAAS platform. These were motivated yesteryear a demand to acquaint rapidly as well as to automate everything.
"From Microservices to Teraservices" talk yesteryear Adrian Cockcroft (Battery Ventures) described how microservices as well as containerazation are useful for accelerating conception yesteryear allowing doing daily releases. Adrian defined a microservice equally a loosely coupled service oriented architecture alongside bounded contexts.
Mon afternoon sessions
In the "Data Federations: An Idea Whose Time Has Come Again", Michael Stonebraker (MIT) talked close their bigdawg polystore platform which volition live released on github inwards a dyad months."From Trash to Treasure" beak yesteryear Pat Selinger (Paradata) was close how to construct clean as well as integrate dingy client information alongside duplicates, missing values, corrupted values, as well as invalid values.
I genuinely liked Rodrigo Fonseca's (Brown Univ.) talk on causal metadata tracking inwards distributed systems.
Eric Grosse (Google Security Team) gave an informative beak titled "Security Lessons from the Front Lines".
Mon even out lighting talks
Monday even out lighting talks slides are available here. The lighting talks are of v infinitesimal duration. In my talk, I somehow ran out of 3 minutes inwards the get-go 2 slides. After I got the "last 2 infinitesimal warning" as well as I rushed through a dyad to a greater extent than slides waiving my arms frantically :-) I should receive got prepared as well as practiced earlier the talk. I was upset close how the beak went but several people (including Phil Bernstein at Microsoft Research) showed involvement as well as approached me after to larn to a greater extent than close the hybrid clocks, which made me experience better.I volition write close twenty-four hours 2, newly-minted McArthur Genius Chris Re's talk, as well as the overall buzz at HPTS inwards a dyad days. I promise to a greater extent than slides volition live added to HPTS site yesteryear then.
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