https://sparsenotes.com/tags/distributed-systems/ Recent content in distributed-systems on Sparse Notes https://sparsenotes.com/images/og-default.png https://sparsenotes.com/images/og-default.png Hugo -- gohugo.io Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://sparsenotes.com/posts/2026/05/papers/fifty-years-transactions/ Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://sparsenotes.com/posts/2026/05/papers/fifty-years-transactions/ Phil Bernstein's personal retrospective on five decades of transaction-processing research — from 2PL/ARIES through Spanner/FoundationDB — and why the topic refuses to be 'solved.' A field map written by the person best positioned to draw it.