Welcome to the DistSys Reading Group! Every week we present and discuss one distributed systems paper. We try to focus on relatively new papers, although we occasionally break this rule for some important older publications. The main objective of this group is to share knowledge through the discussion. Our participants come from academia and industry and often carry a unique perspective and expertise on the subject matter.
Format
We start each meeting with a short presentation of the paper by one of the group members. We record the presentation and later upload it to YouTube for the general audience. After the presentation, we move into a group discussion of the paper. This part is not on the record to make sure we can speak freely about the topic and the paper. However, I write a moderated discussion summary for each meeting and post it here. All the summaries are available via the “Summary” link next to the paper title. For the archive of the summaries, navigate to the “Past Meetings” section below.
Meeting Info
- Meeting Time: Wednesdays at 2:00 PM EST (11 am PST)
- Duration: ~1 hour
- Slack Channel – Join our Slack for Zoom information
- YouTube Channel
Current Schedule (Papers ##81-90)
- Impossibility of Distributed Consensus with One Faulty Process –
Classical/Foundation Paper- Authors: Michael J. Fischer, Nancy A. Lynch, Michael S. Paterson
- November 10th
- Running BGP in Data Centers at Scale (NSDI’21)
- Authors: Anubhavnidhi Abhashkumar, Kausik Subramanian, Alexey Andreyev, Hyojeong Kim, Nanda Kishore Salem, Jingyi Yang, Petr Lapukhov, Aditya Akella, Hongyi Zeng
- November 17th
- — Thanksgiving Break —
- Faster and Cheaper Serverless Computing on Harvested Resources (SOSP’21)
- Authors: Yanqi Zhang, Inigo Goiri, Gohar Irfan Chaudhry, Rodrigo Fonseca, Sameh Elnikety, Christina Delimitrou, Ricardo Bianchini
- December 1st
- PRISM: Rethinking the RDMA Interface for Distributed Systems (SOSP’21)
- Authors: Matthew Burke, Sowmya Dharanipragada, Shannon Joyner, Adriana Szekeres, Jacob Nelson, Irene Zhang, Dan R. K. Ports
- December 8th
- Exploiting Nil-Externality for Fast Replicated Storage (SOSP’21)
- Authors: Aishwarya Ganesan, Ramnatthan Alagappan, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
- December 15th
- — Winter Holidays Break —
- Rabia: Simplifying State-Machine Replication Through Randomization (SOSP’21) – January 5th
- Authors: Haochen Pan, Jesse Tuglu, Neo Zhou, Tianshu Wang, Yicheng Shen, Xiong Zheng, Joseph Tassarotti, Lewis Tseng, Roberto Palmieri
- January 5th
- Log-structured Protocols in Delos (SOSP’21)
- Authors: Mahesh Balakrishnan, Chen Shen, Ahmed Jafri, Suyog Mapara, David Geraghty, Jason Flinn, Vidhya Venkat, Ivailo Nedelchev, Santosh Ghosh, Mihir Dharamshi, Jingming Liu, Filip Gruszczynski, Jun Li, Rounak Tibrewal, Ali Zaveri, Rajeev Nagar, Ahmed Yossef, Francois Richard, Yee Jiun Song
- January 12th
- EPaxos Revisited (NSDI’21) – January 19th
- Authors: Sarah Tollman, Seo Jin Park, John Ousterhout
- January 19th
- Basil: Breaking up BFT with ACID (transactions) (SOSP’21)
- Authors: Florian Suri-Payer, Matthew Burke, Yunhao Zhang, Zheng Wang, Lorenzo Alvisi, Natacha Crooks
- January 26th
- Using Lightweight Formal Methods to Validate a Key-Value Storage Node in Amazon S3 (SOSP’21)
- Authors: James Bornholt, Rajeev Joshi, Vytautas Astrauskas, Brendan Cully, Bernhard Kragl, Seth Markle, Kyle Sauri, Drew Schleit, Grant Slatton, Serdar Tasiran, Jacob Van Geffen, Andrew Warfield
- February 2nd
Past Meetings
Past Special Sessions
- Building Distributed Systems With Stateright – March 30th @ 1pm EST – Jon Nadal.
- Distributed Transactions in YugabyteDB – May 11th @12pm EST – Karthik Ranganathan.
- Fast General Purpose Transactions in Apache Cassandra – February 9thth @ 2 pm EST – Benedict Elliott Smith