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Monarch: Google’s Planet-Scale In-Memory Time Series Database
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FoundationDB: A distributed unbundled transactional key value store
FoundationDB: A Distributed Unbundled Transactional Key Value Store Zhou, et al., 2021
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Defcon: Preventing overload with graceful feature degradation (2023)
This is one in a series of papers I’m reading from OSDI and Usenix ATC. These paper reviews can be delivered weekly to your inbox , or you can subscribe to the Atom feed . As always, feel free to reach out on Twitter with feedback or suggestions!
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Understanding Google’s File System (2020)
These paper reviews can be delivered weekly to your inbox , or you can subscribe to the Atom feed . As always, feel free to reach out on Twitter with feedback or suggestions!
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XFaaS: Hyperscale and Low Cost Serverless Functions at Meta
This is one of several papers I’ll be reading from 2023’s Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP). If you’d like to receive regular updates as soon as they’re published, check out my newsletter or follow me on the site formerly known as Twitter . Enjoy!
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Tao: Facebook’s distributed data store for the social graph
The papers over the next few weeks will be from (or related to) research from VLDB 2021 - on the horizon is one of my favorite systems conferences SOSP . As always, feel free to reach out on Twitter with feedback or suggestions about papers to read! These paper reviews can be delivered weekly to your inbox , or you…
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Unix Shell Programming: The Next 50 Years
This week’s paper won the distinguished presentation award at HotOS 2021, and discusses the potential for future innovation in the tool that many use every day - the shell! A previous submission of this paper on Hacker News elicited a number of strong reactions. One reaction was the assertion that there are in fact…
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Laptop to Lambda: Outsourcing Everyday Jobs to Thousands of Transient Containers
This week’s paper review is the second in a series on “The Future of the Shell” (Part 1, a paper about possible ways to innovate in the shell is here ). As always, feel free to reach out on Twitter with feedback or suggestions about papers to read! These weekly paper reviews can also be delivered weekly to your inbox .
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Ray: A Distributed Framework for Emerging AI Applications
Ray: A Distributed Framework for Emerging AI Applications Moritz, Nishihara, Wang et. al.
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Linux implementation of Homa, a protocol to replace TCP for low-latency RPC
Programming note: I will be taking a several week break from writing paper reviews for the summer. When we come back, I will be finishing off the papers from Usenix ATC and OSDI , then moving on to the great upcoming conferences (my non-exhaustive list is here ). As always, feel free to reach out on Twitter with…
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Understanding Raft Consensus
Recently I was digging deeper into Raft , an important algorithm in the field of distributed systems. Raft is a consensus algorithm , meaning that it is designed to facilitate a set of computers agreeing on a state of the world (more on exactly how the state of the world is represented later), even when communications…