CS-739: Other Readings

This page just holds links to a few extra papers you might be interested in reading that we don't quite have time for during the course. Enjoy?

Networking:

• U-net
• Thrift

Failures:

• Latent Sector Errors
• Corruption
• Flash Failure (Google)
• Flash Failure (MS)
• Memory Failures
• Network Failures

Server Arch:

• Capriccio

Other Systems That Use 2PC:

• Sinfonia

Quorums:

• Thomas
• Origins
• PBS
• Are Quorums an Alternative for Data Replication?
• Quorum Consensus
• Selecting Replication Protocols
• Replicated Data Management in Distributed Systems

Paxos:

• Paxos Made Moderately Complex
• Paxos Made Live

Weaker Consistency:

• Replicated Data Consistency Explained Through Baseball
• Session Guarantees for Weakly Replicated Data
• Primer on Causal Consistency
• COPS
• Saito

Isolation and Resource Allocation:

• CoopCache
• Pisces
• (Split-IO)
• IOFlow
• DRF

Load Balance:

• Lard

Cluster Schedulers:

• Omega
• Mesos
• Sparrow

MR + GFS, and Before:

• MR
• River

Important Systems:

• Spanner
• TAO
• Dynamo