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Introduction In this blogpost we build a distributed datalog engine that can process datalog queries such as the one below in a distributed fashion. The key idea mimics the usual dataflow programming idea such as MapReduce where we shard our data and create a dataflow-graph to specify the computation we want. link("a","b"). link("b","c"). link("c","c"). link("c","d"). link("d","e"). link("e","f"). reachable(X, Y) :- link(X, Y). reachable(X, Y) :- link(X, Z), reachable(Z, Y). We will build our engine from first principle by looking at how we perform single node evaluation of datalog queries, and then extend it to multiple nodes....

Denotational Semantics is a unique course offered by the Computer Lab at UoC. It can be intimidating at first glance but at the same time bring you lots of fun and frustration at the same time. In this blog post we will look at three proof techniques in domain theory and investigate the connections between them. In this blog we look at three techniques that can be used to prove the fixpoint of a function, namely, Tarski’s fixpoint theorem, lfp1 + lfp2 and Scott induction....