Aubrey Tatarowicz, Carlo Curino, Evan P. C. Jones , and Samuel Madden. Lookup Tables: Fine-Grained Partitioning for Distributed Databases . In ICDE , Washington, DC, USA, Apr. 2012. ( pdf )
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Google's gRPC is an RPC system that supports many languages, and is relatively widely used. I think its popularity is due to being used for parts of Docker and Kubernetes. I think gRPC is mostly fine, but it is surprisingly easy to screw up by misconfiguring it. Part of that is because RPC systems are challenging to…
At Twitter, a team had a unusual failure where corrupt data ended up in memcache. The root cause appears to have been a switch that was corrupting packets. Most packets were being dropped and the throughput was much lower than normal, but some were still making it through. The hypothesis is that occasionally the…