Hello!
I’m Dr. Martin Kleppmann. I do various things:
- I am a Senior Research Associate and Affiliated Lecturer at the
University of Cambridge Department of Computer Science and Technology,
funded by a
Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship
and the Isaac Newton Trust.
I work on local-first collaboration software
and distributed systems security, and I teach an undergraduate
course on distributed systems.
- I am working towards a sustainable model for research and teaching through
crowdfunding on Patreon.
- In 2017 I published a book for O’Reilly, called
Designing Data-Intensive Applications.
It covers the architecture of a broad range of databases and distributed data processing systems,
and it is one of the best-selling titles in the publisher’s entire catalogue.
- I am a regular speaker at conferences, and
recordings of my talks
have been watched over 150,000 times.
- I have worked on various open source projects including
Automerge,
Apache Avro, and
Apache Samza.
- Between 2007 and 2014 I was an industrial software engineer and entrepreneur. I co-founded
Rapportive
(acquired
by LinkedIn in 2012) and
Go Test It
(acquired
by Red Gate Software in 2009).
- I have composed several musical works, including
“Die Türme des Februar” (in German), a musical-dramatic adaptation of the
book by Tonke Dragt,
which premiered in 2007 with a cast of 150 people.
Feel free to contact me.
Recent blog posts
Things I have written recently.
Highlights
Older articles that have remained popular.
Conference talks
Events where I will be speaking or have spoken.
Publications
Work-in-progress drafts:
Books:
Peer-reviewed papers in journals and top-tier conferences:
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Stephan A. Kollmann, Martin Kleppmann, and Alastair R. Beresford:
“Snapdoc: Authenticated snapshots with history privacy in peer-to-peer collaborative editing”.
Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETS), Vol. 2019, Issue 3,
July 2019.
doi:10.2478/popets-2019-0044
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Victor B. F. Gomes, Martin Kleppmann, Dominic P. Mulligan, and Alastair R. Beresford:
“Verifying Strong Eventual Consistency in Distributed Systems”.
Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages (PACMPL), Vol. 1, OOPSLA, Article 109,
October 2017.
doi:10.1145/3133933
— Distinguished Paper Award and Distinguished Artifact Award! :-)
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Martin Kleppmann and Alastair R. Beresford:
“A Conflict-Free Replicated JSON Datatype”.
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems 28(10):2733–2746,
April 2017.
doi:10.1109/TPDS.2017.2697382
Peer-reviewed papers in other conferences and workshops:
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Peter van Hardenberg and Martin Kleppmann:
“PushPin: Towards Production-Quality Peer-to-Peer Collaboration”.
7th Workshop on Principles and Practice of Consistency for Distributed Data (PaPoC),
April 2020.
doi:10.1145/3380787.3393683
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Martin Kleppmann:
“Moving Elements in List CRDTs”.
7th Workshop on Principles and Practice of Consistency for Distributed Data (PaPoC),
April 2020.
doi:10.1145/3380787.3393677
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Martin Kleppmann, Adam Wiggins, Peter van Hardenberg, and Mark McGranaghan:
“Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud”.
ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on New Ideas, New Paradigms, and Reflections on Programming and Software (Onward! ’19),
October 2019.
doi:10.1145/3359591.3359737
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Diana A. Vasile, Martin Kleppmann, Daniel R. Thomas, and Alastair R. Beresford:
“Ghost trace on the wire? Using key evidence for informed decisions”.
27th International Workshop on Security Protocols,
April 2019.
doi:10.1007/978-3-030-57043-9_23
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Martin Kleppmann, Victor B. F. Gomes, Dominic P. Mulligan, and Alastair R. Beresford:
“Interleaving anomalies in collaborative text editors”.
6th Workshop on Principles and Practice of Consistency for Distributed Data (PaPoC),
March 2019.
doi:10.1145/3301419.3323972
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Martin Kleppmann, Stephan A. Kollmann, Diana A. Vasile and Alastair R. Beresford:
“From Secure Messaging to Secure Collaboration”.
26th International Workshop on Security Protocols,
March 2018.
doi:10.1007/978-3-030-03251-7_21
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Martin Kleppmann and Conrad Irwin:
“Strengthening public key authentication against key theft”.
9th International Conference on Passwords,
December 2015.
doi:10.1007/978-3-319-29938-9_9
Invited papers, book chapters, and reports:
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Martin Kleppmann, Alastair R. Beresford, and Boerge Svingen:
“Online Event Processing: Achieving consistency where distributed transactions have failed”.
Communications of the ACM, Volume 62, Issue 5, pages 43-49,
May 2019.
doi:10.1145/3312527
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Martin Kleppmann, Victor B. F. Gomes, Dominic P. Mulligan, and Alastair R. Beresford:
“OpSets: Sequential Specifications for Replicated Datatypes (Extended Version)”.
arXiv:1805.04263 [cs.DC],
May 2018.
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Martin Kleppmann, Victor B. F. Gomes, Dominic P. Mulligan, and Alastair R. Beresford:
“OpSets: Sequential Specifications for Replicated Datatypes (Proof Document)”.
Archive of Formal Proofs,
May 2018.
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Martin Kleppmann:
“Apache Samza”.
In: Encyclopedia of Big Data Technologies, Springer,
March 2018.
doi:10.1007/978-3-319-63962-8_197-2
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Victor B. F. Gomes, Martin Kleppmann, Dominic P. Mulligan, and Alastair R. Beresford:
“A framework for establishing Strong Eventual Consistency for Conflict-free Replicated Datatypes”.
Archive of Formal Proofs,
July 2017.
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Alistair R Beresford and Martin Kleppmann:
“Data Governance and Modern Computer Systems”.
British Academy and Royal Society workshop on the governance of data and its uses,
July 2016.
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Martin Kleppmann:
“Making Sense of Stream Processing”.
O’Reilly Media,
May 2016.
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Martin Kleppmann and Jay Kreps:
“Kafka, Samza and the Unix philosophy of distributed data”.
IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin 38(4):4–14,
December 2015.
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Martin Kleppmann:
“A critique of the CAP theorem”.
arXiv:1509.05393 [cs.DC],
September 2015.
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Martin Kleppmann:
“Simulation of colliding constrained rigid bodies”.
University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory, Tech Report UCAM-CL-TR-683,
April 2007.
— Prize for best undergraduate dissertation! :-)