It has been a while since I last studied, and I wanted to learn something interesting. This time, I’ll be covering Percolator, a distributed transaction system. I won’t translate the paper …
An old paper by AWS, Dynamo has been in the market for a long time, and the architecture has likely evolved since the paper’s publication. Despite this, the paper was selected as one of the …
This article introduces the design considerations of AWS’s database product, Aurora, including storage-compute separation, single-writer multi-reader architecture, and quorum-based NRW …
This post provides a brief overview of the Chain Replication (CR) paper, which introduces a simple but effective algorithm for providing linearizable consistency in storage services. For those …
This article mainly discusses the design and practical considerations of the ZooKeeper system, such as wait-free and lock mechanisms, consistency choices, system-provided APIs, and specific semantic …