https://blog.mfilipe.eu/papers/ Recent content in Papers on Miguel Filipe Hugo en-us © Miguel Filipe Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.mfilipe.eu/papers/evm-foundations/ Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.mfilipe.eu/papers/evm-foundations/ Goal: build solid mental models of EVM execution, storage, state, and gas—validated by small, real traces on your node. Prereqs (install any you’re missing) Geth (or your node with debug/trace APIs): https://geth.ethereum.org/ Foundry (cast/forge): https://book.getfoundry.sh/ Solidity compiler (solc): https://docs.soliditylang.org/en/latest/installing-solidity.html Day 1 — Big-picture EVM & “living spec” Read EVM overview: https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/evm/ Execution-specs (EELS) README: https://github.com/ethereum/execution-specs Keep these open while learning: Opcodes (reference): https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/evm/opcodes/ Opcodes (interactive, gas, traces): https://www.evm.codes/ Output https://blog.mfilipe.eu/papers/snowflake-paper/ Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.mfilipe.eu/papers/snowflake-paper/ Snowflake Paper (PDF) — SIGMOD 2016 Andy Pavlo’s lecture from spring 2023: YouTube lecture Slides (PDF) — CMU 15-721 Intro Snowflake was a wilful investment decision to make a bleeding edge from scratch OLAP database built for SaaS. Hired very senior engineers from Oracle and Vectorwise. Developed in C++, intention to have a scalable, vectorized OLAP database built on top of cloud. Fully built from scratch, full control. (This is known as a “greenfield” design, no baggage, no legacy) https://blog.mfilipe.eu/papers/dynamodb-view-under-the-hood/ Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.mfilipe.eu/papers/dynamodb-view-under-the-hood/ A talk I gave on the internals of AWS DynamoDB, from my time on the team: partitions, replication, the request path, and how storage actually works under the hood. From my personal memory — slides are the artifact, not the talk recording. 📄 Download the slides (PDF) Your browser doesn't render embedded PDFs. Download the PDF directly.