Murat Demirbas

On distributed systems broadly defined and other curiosities. The opinions on this site are my own.

This paper appeared in VLDB'17. The paper presents NAM-DB, a scalable distributed database system that uses RDMA (mostly 1-way RDMA) and a ...

I had summarized/discussed a couple papers ( Haystack , Memcache caching ) about Facebook's architecture before. Facebook uses simple arch...

This paper is by Abutalib Aghayev (Carnegie Mellon University), Sage Weil (Red Hat Inc.), Michael Kuchnik (Carnegie Mellon University), Mar...

This paper from Sigmod 2021 presents FoundationDB, a transactional key-value store that supports multi-key strictly serializable transacti...

It has been almost 9 months since I started my sabbatical work with the Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB team. I knew what I signed up for then...

C. J. Date's Sigmod 1983 keynote, "Database Usability", was prescient. Usability is the most important thing to the customers. They care les...

In this post, we model and explore the two-phase commit protocol using TLA+. The two-phase commit protocol is practical and is used in man...

Recently there has been a lot of development in realtime data processing systems, including Twitter's Storm and Heron, Google's Millwheel, a...

This paper surveys the design approaches used in distributed machine learning (ML) platforms and proposes future research directions. This ...

This paper is from SOSP'13. The Polyjuice paper, which we studied last week, built on the Silo codebase and commit protocol, which led me ...

Zookeeper is an Apache project for providing coordination services to distributed systems. ZooKeeper aims to provide a simple kernel (a fil...