The Bi-Channel Networking Paradigm for Database Systems in the Cloud
Weekly Paper Notes — one of the top picks from the 2026-06-20 CS paper digest. Area: Databases / Systems. Authors: Georg Kreuzmayr (TigerBeetle), Muhammad El-Hindi (TUM), Benjamin Wagner (Firebolt), Tobias Ziegler (TigerBeetle), Viktor Leis (TUM) arXiv: 2606.19969 · PDF TL;DR For two decades distributed database systems treated the network as an opaque, kernel-managed pipe and the kernel TCP stack was fast enough that this abstraction was free. It isn’t anymore....