Archive of blog posts

This is the full archive of posts on Martin Kleppmann's blog (formerly Yes/No/Cancel). My thinking has been developing rapidly, and some of the older stuff is quite embarrassing to my present self. So please treat it with the appropriate scepticism :)

• 05 Jul 2024: Pudding: user discovery for anonymity networks
• 04 Jan 2024: 2023 year in review
• 12 Oct 2022: Verifying distributed systems with Isabelle/HOL
• 03 Jan 2022: Book Review: The Future of Fusion Energy
• 01 Sep 2021: Several podcast interviews
• 14 Apr 2021: It's time to say goodbye to the GPL
• 23 Feb 2021: Building the future of computing, with your help
• 13 Jan 2021: Decentralised content moderation
• 02 Dec 2020: Using Bloom filters to efficiently synchronise hash graphs
• 18 Nov 2020: New courses on distributed systems and elliptic curve cryptography
• 29 Sep 2020: Writing a book: is it worth it?
• 31 Jan 2020: A brief Brexit lament
• 30 Oct 2019: Research update for 2019
• 27 Jun 2019: Figuring out the future of distributed data systems (interview)
• 18 Jan 2018: Should you put several event types in the same Kafka topic?
• 15 Mar 2017: Drawing a map of distributed data systems
• 26 Jan 2017: The probability of data loss in large clusters
• 15 Apr 2016: Announcing TRVE DATA: Placing a bit less trust in the cloud
• 30 Mar 2016: Device security and the FBI
• 18 Feb 2016: Should law enforcement services have a backdoor into smartphones?
• 08 Feb 2016: How to do distributed locking
• 28 Dec 2015: My year 2015 in review
• 10 Nov 2015: The Investigatory Powers Bill would increase cybercrime
• 11 Oct 2015: The Recurse Center and the joy of learning
• 05 Aug 2015: Kafka, Samza, and the Unix philosophy of distributed data
• 27 May 2015: Using logs to build a solid data infrastructure (or: why dual writes are a bad idea)
• 11 May 2015: Please stop calling databases CP or AP
• 23 Apr 2015: Bottled Water: Real-time integration of PostgreSQL and Kafka
• 13 Apr 2015: Real-time full-text search with Luwak and Samza
• 04 Mar 2015: Turning the database inside-out with Apache Samza
• 29 Jan 2015: Stream processing, Event sourcing, Reactive, CEP… and making sense of it all
• 10 Dec 2014: Wouldn’t it be fun to build your own Google?
• 25 Nov 2014: Hermitage: Testing the “I” in ACID
• 15 Sep 2014: Hey, I'm writing a book!
• 28 Aug 2014: Upcoming conference talks about Samza
• 26 Mar 2014: Six things I wish we had known about scaling
• 23 Oct 2013: LinkedIn Intro: Doing the Impossible on iOS
• 12 Aug 2013: System operations over seven centuries
• 24 May 2013: Improving the security of your SSH private key files
• 05 Dec 2012: Schema evolution in Avro, Protocol Buffers and Thrift
• 08 Oct 2012: The complexity of user experience
• 01 Oct 2012: Rethinking caching in web apps
• 18 Jun 2012: Java's hashCode is not safe for distributed systems
• 16 Aug 2011: My FounderLY interview
• 24 May 2011: Evolution of Rapportive's new design
• 15 Mar 2011: What's so special about Y Combinator?
• 07 Mar 2011: Accounting for Computer Scientists
• 21 Dec 2010: Having a launched product is hard
• 30 Oct 2010: Intuition has no transfer encoding
• 31 Aug 2010: Good things are hard to articulate
• 05 May 2010: Valuation caps on convertible notes, explained with graphs
• 09 Apr 2010: Our social future
• 31 Mar 2010: Hey, what happened just then?
• 23 Feb 2010: Learning about our customers
• 30 Jan 2010: How to negotiate a price: Return on Indignation
• 31 Dec 2009: How we totally ignored our customers
• 30 Nov 2009: My first exit
• 25 Nov 2009: Ending Browser Pain on the Startup Success Podcast
• 18 Nov 2009: 10 Crucial Questions for B2B Startup Founders: A Workshop at Business of Software 2009
• 17 Nov 2009: Running a Workshop for Startup Founders
• 18 Oct 2009: Update on Go Test It
• 18 Sep 2009: The Python Paradox is now the Scala Paradox
• 12 Sep 2009: How to pull off a slick tech demo (in 5 easy steps)
• 24 Jun 2009: Should you go beyond relational databases?
• 07 Jun 2009: Customer testimonial: Bid for Wine
• 13 May 2009: Building Go Test It: Fun with Scala and REST APIs
• 24 Apr 2009: My talk on the Invoicing Gem 0.2
• 04 Apr 2009: Managing Meta: Thoughts on focus and priorities
• 31 Mar 2009: Doing a PhD
• 04 Mar 2009: OAccounts - Setting your accounts data free
• 12 Feb 2009: Ruby Invoicing Gem released
• 05 Feb 2009: CamCow (Cambridge Coworking) Update
• 26 Jan 2009: Flickr API security weakness, and thoughts about web APIs in general
• 01 Jan 2009: Bupa's 'Quitclock' Facebook app now online
• 30 Dec 2008: Looking back at 2008, Plans for 2009
• 24 Nov 2008: i18n and social web: We still haven't figured it out
• 16 Nov 2008: How to meet interesting people in Cambridge
• 10 Nov 2008: The most boring topic in the world (except for the Terry Pratchett references)
• 03 Nov 2008: Coworking: Amazing
• 01 Nov 2008: Bid for Wine is up and running
• 27 Oct 2008: Load/performance testing a Rails application with ApacheBench
• 25 Oct 2008: Implementing constrained rigid body simulation - source code now available
• 02 Oct 2008: Semantic web updates
• 27 Sep 2008: Selenium in real-world projects: Automated testing for web applications
• 22 Sep 2008: Bid for Wine, online wine auctions coming soon
• 20 Sep 2008: The Chronophage and a story about John Taylor
• 07 Sep 2008: BarCamp Brighton - Notes
• 02 Sep 2008: Comparing floating-point and decimal in Python
• 26 Aug 2008: Context-sensitive constructions in English
• 31 Jul 2008: Bug trackers and version control
• 26 Jul 2008: Ubuntu upgrade woes
• 10 Jun 2008: Hermann Bondi: Arrogance of certainty
• 11 May 2008: Ruby on Rails vs. Java Enterprise
• 09 Apr 2008: The Tour de France metaphor for entrepreneurship
• 30 Mar 2008: On the importance of ambition
• 30 Mar 2008: Do-it-yourself 3G iPhone
• 21 Feb 2008: How to learn to stop hating the cellular telephone industry
• 20 Feb 2008: Some mobile internet usage statistics
• 16 Feb 2008: A day of remembrance for the digitally excluded
• 29 Jan 2008: Update on German train ticket machines
• 28 Jan 2008: Bad usability calendar
• 12 Jan 2008: Potted plants and the mobile web
• 10 Jan 2008: The economic case for open source (for Google, Nokia etc.)
• 05 Jan 2008: iPhone specific web sites -- do they make sense?
• 03 Jan 2008: Imitating the iPhone User Agent in Firefox
• 29 Dec 2007: Christmas, political correctness and cultural identity
• 16 Dec 2007: The Camden Food Co.: Inspired customer service
• 11 Dec 2007: Increasing user satisfaction on the mobile web: Technical considerations
• 11 Dec 2007: Ept Computing's website re-launched
• 07 Dec 2007: Trends 2008: Web access everywhere; e-commerce
• 02 Dec 2007: Mobile web design is so different from the desktop web
• 30 Nov 2007: Find my nearest toilet, curry, whatever
• 25 Nov 2007: Dream teams, team dreams
• 24 Nov 2007: Screenshots from Windows Vista Update
• 23 Nov 2007: Why the mobile web is so slow
• 20 Nov 2007: Android -- Google's throw-away mobile operating system
• 19 Nov 2007: Challenges of interface design for mobile devices
• 18 Nov 2007: This is not a review of the iPhone
• 16 Nov 2007: Future of Mobile conference
• 13 Nov 2007: Train ticket machines in Germany (UK vs. Germany Part 2)
• 12 Nov 2007: Blog coming back to life
• 25 Jul 2007: User experience importance is being recognised
• 24 Jul 2007: Train ticket machines -- UK vs. Germany (Part 1)
• 20 Jul 2007: Usability aspects of gas cookers
• 19 Jul 2007: Yes/No/Cancel causes Aspirin sales to soar