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In Search of a Compositional Theory of Self-Stabilization
Murat Demirbas connects metastable failures to classical self-stabilization and asks what a compositional theory would need to make distributed recovery composable.
10 min · 2,248 words
Sharding vs. Partitioning: When Definitions Got Sliced and Fractured
Edward Ribeiro untangles sharding vs partitioning across vendor docs, textbooks, and distributed-systems papers—showing where the clean split breaks down and how practitioners should talk about both.
19 min · 4,297 words