data migration

  • Paper Summary: Bolt-On Global Consistency for the Cloud

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    This paper appeared in SOCC 2018, but caught my Paxos attention only recently. The premise of the paper is to provide strong consistency in a heterogeneous storage system spanning multiple cloud providers and storage platforms. Going across cloud providers is challenging, since storage services at different clouds cannot directly talk to each other and replicate the…

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  • Keep The Data Where You Use It

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    As trivial as it sounds, but keeping the data close to where it is consumed can drastically improve the performance of the large globe-spanning cloud applications, such as social networks, ecommerce and IoT. These applications rely on some database systems to make sure that all the data can be accessed quickly. The de facto method…

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