> spread and Vsync/ISIS both struck me as perfect examples of the meme of poor quality academic code. I was about to say that academic code is almost always po

> spread and Vsync/ISIS both struck me as perfect examples of the meme of poor quality academic code. I was about to say that academic code is almost always poor quality, but that should never, ever apply to distributed systems code. If there's one thing we should see from academic distributed systems research, it's principled, well-constructed, solidly tested libraries, rather than wannabe commercial databases written by graduate students.