Paper Insights #3 - Memory Resource Management in VMware ESX Server

Paper Insights #26 - CliqueMap: Productionizing an RMA-Based Distributed Caching System

Memcached is a popular in-memory cache, but I'd like to discuss CliqueMap, Google's caching solution. Having worked closely with CliqueMap, I have a deep understanding of its architecture. One major difference from Memcached is CliqueMap's use of RMA for reads. We'll also take a closer look at RDMA, a crucial cloud technology that emerged in the 2010s.

Paper Insights #27 - Don't Settle for Eventual: Scalable Causal Consistency for Wide-Area Storage with COPS

This work provides a strong foundation for understanding causality , both within distributed systems and more broadly. Its principles underpin systems achieving causal consistency, a powerful form of consistency that ensures high availability. Presented at SOSP 2011, this paper features contributions from prominent distributed systems researchers Wyatt Lloyd and Michael Freedman .

Paper Insights #24 - Spanner: Google's Globally-Distributed Database

This landmark paper, presented at ODSI '12, has become one of Google's most significant contributions to distributed computing. It didn't solve the long-standing core problem of scalability of 2PC in distributed systems, rather, it introduced TrueTime that revolutionized system assumptions. Authored by J.C. Corbett , with contributions from pioneers like Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat , this paper effectively ended my exploration of distributed SQL databases. It represents the leading edge of the field.

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