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Reading Group. Pegasus: Tolerating Skewed Workloads in Distributed Storage with In-Network Coherence Directories
Hard to imagine, but the reading group just completed the 45th session. We discussed “Pegasus: Tolerating Skewed Workloads in Distributed Storage with In-Network Coherence Directories,” again from OSDI’20. Pegasus is one of these systems that are very obvious in the hindsight. However, this “obviousness” is deceptive — Dan Ports, one of the authors behind the…
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One Page Summary: “Slicer: Auto-Sharding for Datacenter Applications”
One of the questions engineers of large distributed system must answer is “where to compute”. This is a big and important question, as we do not want to send a request originating in the US to some server in Australia. It simply makes no sense to incur the communication overhead if there are resources available…
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