a student and an engineer

hi ๐Ÿ‘‹, my name is Akshat Sharma, I’m currently a CS grad student working in the File Systems and Storage Lab(FSL) at Stony Brook University.

I’m currently researching secure archival storage systems and their applications. I’m interested in learning about databases, operation systems, distributed systems and have worked in distributed systems at Stony Systems Lab before working in FSL.

Here, I post things that I find interesting/notes that I want to share with the world.

Generalized Isolation Level Definitions

Personal notes on the Generalized Isolation Level Definitions paper that was published in 2000.

CockroachDB, The Resilient Geo-Distributed SQL Database

Personal notes on the CockroachDB paper that was presented in SIGMOD 2020.

tiktokify: A Hackathon winning product

A post detailing my experience at the MongoDB Gen AI Hackathon and the product me and my team built over the span of 8 hours.

Web3

Notes Bittorrent Bittorrent is already a decentralized file sharing platform. How does bittorrent work? When a client receives a .torrent file, it uses the DHT embedded inside the .torrent file to contact the nearest node in the swarm. Once its connected, files can be transferred in a peer to peer way. Problem with Bittorrent There is no incentive for anyone to keep sharing files. IPFS We can store the map of file hash to the file contents in the blockchain using smart contract....

BFT Membership

Notes Byzantine protocols can be used to increase the throughput of the blockchain but byzantine protocols work only with a closed membership model. Need to define an open membership model for BFT protocols.