# Paper Review and Summary

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## Murat and Aleksey Read Papers: "Barbarians at the Gate: How AI is Upending Systems Research"

DevFeed: [Murat and Aleksey Read Papers: "Barbarians at the Gate: How AI is Upending Systems Research"](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/murat-and-aleksey-read-papers-barbarians-at-the-gate-how-ai-is-upending-systems-research-39547.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://charap.co/murat-and-aleksey-read-papers-barbarians-at-the-gate-how-ai-is-upending-systems-research/>)

Author: Aleksey Charapko

Published: 2025-10-17T22:08:59Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Aleksey Charapko](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/aleksey-charapko.md>)

Topics: [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [Large Language Model](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/llm.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/systems.md>), [Algorithms, Complexity](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/algorithms-complexity.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [algorithm](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/algorithm.md>), [distributed-systems](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/distributed-systems.md>), [evaluation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/evaluation.md>), [llm](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/llm.md>), [llms](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/llms.md>), [other-thoughts](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/other-thoughts.md>), [paper-review-and-summary](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/paper-review-and-summary.md>), [research](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/research.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/systems.md>)

### AI overview

This commentary examines the "Barbarians at the Gate: How AI is Upending Systems Research" paper and its proposed AI-Driven Research for Systems approach. The approach places LLM agents in an iterative loop that refines candidate solutions and evaluates them, but the article questions whether it addresses problem formulation and other essential research steps.

### Source excerpt

The "Barbarians at the Gate: How AI is Upending Systems Research" paper by Audrey Cheng, Shu Liu, Melissa Pan, Zhifei Li, Bowen Wang, Alexander Krentsel, Tian Xia, Mert Cemri, Jongseok Park, Shuo Yang, Jeff Chen, Lakshya Agrawal, Aditya Desai, Jiarong Xing, Koushik Sen, Matei Zaharia, Ion Stoica from Berkeley has recently made a splash in [...]

## HoliPaxos: Towards More Predictable Performance in State Machine Replication

DevFeed: [HoliPaxos: Towards More Predictable Performance in State Machine Replication](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/holipaxos-towards-more-predictable-performance-in-state-machine-replication-39544.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://charap.co/holipaxos-towards-more-predictable-performance-in-state-machine-replication/>)

Author: Aleksey Charapko

Published: 2025-08-12T20:42:29Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Aleksey Charapko](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/aleksey-charapko.md>)

Topics: [Replication](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/replication.md>), [Protocol (disambiguation)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/protocol.md>), [Algorithms](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/algorithms.md>), [Algorithms, Complexity](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/algorithms-complexity.md>)

Tags: [consensus](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/consensus.md>), [management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/management.md>), [network](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/network.md>), [other-thoughts](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/other-thoughts.md>), [paper-review-and-summary](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/paper-review-and-summary.md>), [partitions](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/partitions.md>), [paxos](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/paxos.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [protocol](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/protocol.md>), [replication](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/replication.md>)

### AI overview

The article introduces HoliPaxos, a paper proposing orthogonal optimizations to the classical MultiPaxos state machine replication protocol. The changes target more stable performance during slow-node conditions, network partitions, and log management while preserving MultiPaxos behavior in the common case.

### Source excerpt

I will be presenting our new paper, "HoliPaxos: Towards More Predictable Performance in State Machine Replication," at the VLDB'25. Feel free to ping me if you are there and want to chat! This paper explores several orthogonal optimizations to the classical MultiPaxos state machine replication protocol to improve its performance stability in the presence of [...]