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 ##51-60)
- ✓Conflict-free Replicated Data Types –
Classical/Foundational Paper – June 16th 
[Summary] - ✓Strong and Efficient Consistency with Consistency-Aware Durability – June 30th [Summary]
- ✓Unifying Timestamp with Transaction Ordering for MVCC with Decentralized Scalar Timestamp – July 7th [Summary]
- ✓Evolution of Development Priorities in Key-value Stores Serving Large-scale Applications: The RocksDB Experience – July 14th [Summary]
- ✓FoundationDB: A Distributed Unbundled Transactional Key Value Store – July 21st [Summary]
- Cores that don’t count – July 28th
- When Cloud Storage Meets RDMA – August 4th
- Move Fast and Meet Deadlines: Fine-grained Real-time Stream Processing with Cameo – August 11th
- Fault-Tolerant Replication with Pull-Based Consensus in MongoDB – August 18th
- In Reference to RPC: It’s Time to Add Distributed Memory – August 25th
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.