Datacenter Middleware
Slides:
Assigned Readings:
- Monday, 4/12
- Respond on Blackboard Discussion: OSDI 2004: FUSE: Lightweight Guaranteed Distributed Failure Notification. John Dunagan, Microsoft Research; Nicholas J. A. Harvey, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Michael B. Jones, Microsoft Research; Dejan Kostic, Duke University; Marvin Theimer and Alec Wolman, Microsoft Research
- Wednesday, 4/14
- Respond on Blackboard Discussion: OSDI 2006: The Chubby Lock Service for Loosely-Coupled Distributed Systems. Mike Burrows, Google Inc.
- SOSP 2007: Sinfonia: A New Paradigm for Building Scalable Distributed Systems (Awarded a best paper award). Marcos K. Aguilera (HP Labs), Arif Merchant (HP Labs), Mehul Shah (HP Labs), Alistair Veitch (HP Labs), and Christos Karamanolis (VMWare)
- Monday, 4/19
- Respond on Blackboard Discussion: OSDI 2006: Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data (Best Paper Award). Fay Chang, Jeffrey Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Wilson C. Hsieh, Deborah A. Wallach, Mike Burrows, Tushar Chandra, Andrew Fikes, and Robert E. Gruber, Google, Inc.
- Wednesday, 4/21
- Respond on Blackboard Discussion: VLDB 2008: PNUTS: Yahoo!'s Hosted Data Serving Platform. Brian F. Cooper, Raghu Ramakrishnan, Utkarsh Srivastava, Adam Silberstein, Philip Bohannon, Hans-Arno Jacobsen, Nick Puz, Daniel Weaver and Ramana Yerneni, Yahoo! Research
- SOSP 2007: Dynamo: Amazon's Highly Available Key-Value Store. (Awarded an Audience Choice award) Guiseppe DeCandia (Amazon.com), Deniz Hastorun (Amazon.com), Madan Jampani (Amazon.com), Gunavardhan Kakulapati (Amazon.com), Avinash Lakshman (Amazon.com), Alex Pilchin (Amazon.com), Swami Sivasubramanian (Amazon.com), Peter Vosshall (Amazon.com), and Werner Vogels (Amazon.com)