With just four more papers to go in the DistSys Reading Group’s current batch, it is time to get the next set going. This round, we will have 10 papers that should last till the end of the spring semester. Our last batch was all about OSDI’20 papers, and this time around we will mix things around both in terms of the venues and paper recency. We will also start the batch with one foundational paper taken from Murat’s recent list of must-read classical papers in distributed systems. Without further ado, here is the list:

1. Distributed Snapshots: Determining Global States of a Distributed System – April 7th
2. Facebook’s Tectonic Filesystem: Efficiency from Exascale – April 14th
3. New Directions in Cloud Programming – April 21st
4. Paxos vs Raft: Have we reached consensus on distributed consensus? – April 28th
5. Protocol-Aware Recovery for Consensus-Based Storage – May 5th
6. chainifyDB: How to get rid of your Blockchain and use your DBMS instead – May 12th
7. XFT: practical fault tolerance beyond crashes – May 19
8. Cerebro: A Layered Data Platform for Scalable Deep Learning – May 26th
9. Multitenancy for Fast and Programmable Networks in the Cloud – June 2nd
10. Exploiting Symbolic Execution to Accelerate Deterministic Databases – June 9th

Reading Group

Our reading group takes place over Zoom every Thursday at 1:00 pm EST. We have a slack group where we post papers, hold offline discussions, and most importantly manage Zoom invites to paper presentations. Please join the slack group to get involved!