Sebastian Burckhardt

À propos

My research interests are programming models to program distributed, parallel, or concurrent or systems conveniently, efficiently, and correctly.

I am particularly interested in the following topics (from more recent to less recent):

Serverless Orchestrations

• See our latest publication on Netherite, an execution engine for Durable Functions. It appears in the VLDB journal special issue «Best of VLDB 2022» and adds newly collected data to our original VLDB paper.
• Durable Task Scheduler is in public preview! It is a new fully managed backend provider by the Azure Durable Functions team which includes some Netherite-inspired «backend-tech» from MSR.
• Netherite was built by MSR in collaboration with the Azure Durable Functions team and is generally available.
• See the slides for my talk at the Sky PL Seminar.
• Check out our OOPSLA semantics paper on Durable Functions.

Programming Elastic Services using Virtual Actors
(see the Orleans project)
Eventual Consistency, and Consistency in Distributed Systems
Check out my book! (free download on publisher site, or just the pdf)
Touch-enabled scripting languages for mobile+cloud
(see the TouchDevelop project)
Programming with Concurrent Revisions
(see the Revisions project)
Verification and Debugging Tools for Concurrent Programs
(see the Cuzz and CHESS projects)