A Retrospective on SEDAI keep bumping into references online to my PhD thesis work on the Staged Event-Driven Architecture, or SEDA. I thought this had been long forgotten, but I guess not. It's been about 10 years since I did the bulk of that work (the major paper was published in SOSP 2001), so I thought it would be interesting to think back on what we got right and what we got wrong. Just to summarize, SEDA is a desi
