As a funny quirk of history, Michael Cahill, the founder of WiredTiger (and now a MongoDB employee), is the primary author of "Serializable Isolation for Snapsh

As a funny quirk of history, Michael Cahill, the founder of WiredTiger (and now a MongoDB employee), is the primary author of "Serializable Isolation for Snapshot Databases" [0] the paper that introduced Serializable Snapshot Isolation (SSI). SSI is the concurrency control mechanism used in Postgres [1][2]. [0] - https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse444/08au/544M/READING-LIST/fekete-sigmod2008.pdf https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse444/08au/544M/R... [1] - https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/SSI https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/SSI [2] - http://drkp.net/papers/ssi-vldb12.pdf http://drkp.net/papers/ssi-vldb12.pdf