This week, I presented this paper at ICCCN'26. This is joint work with Aleksey Charapko (University of New Hampshire) and my MongoDB colleagues Matt Broadstone, Daniel Gomez Ferro, and Akshat Vig. The paper investigates how to build a metastability tolerant execution control system (ECS) for a...
Metastability has been studied in previous work as a self-sustaining degradation in goodput that persists even after the trigger is gone. The degraded state loiters on entirely due to the system's own internal feedback loops (retries, queues), and there is no simple reset button to press in...
As I mentioned in my previous post, I traveled to San Jose at the end of May for the ACM CAIS conference. On Day 0, I gave a very short talk at the Supporting our AI Overlords (SAO) workshop. This post is the promised summary of our paper, "A Case for Simulation-Driven Resilience in Agentic Data...