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Analytics with smart arrays: adaptive and efficient language-independent data

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Analytics with smart arrays: adaptive and efficient language-independent data Psaroudakis et al., EuroSys'18 (If you don’t have ACM Digital Library access, the paper can be accessed either by following the link above directly from The Morning Paper blog site). We’re going lower-level today, with a look at some work on adaptive data structures by Oracle. ... Continue Reading

Medea: scheduling of long running applications in shared production clusters

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Medea: scheduling of long running applications in shared production clusters Garefalakis et al., EuroSys'18 (If you don’t have ACM Digital Library access, the paper can be accessed either by following the link above directly from The Morning Paper blog site). We’re sticking with schedulers today, and a really interesting system called Medea which is designed ... Continue Reading

BDS: A centralized near-optimal overlay network for inter-datacenter data replication

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BDS: A centralized near-optimal overlay network for inter-datacenter data replication Zhang et al., EuroSys'18 (If you don’t have ACM Digital Library access, the paper can be accessed either by following the link above directly from The Morning Paper blog site). This is the story of how inter-datacenter multicast transfers at Baidu were sped-up by a ... Continue Reading

ServiceFabric: a distributed platform for building microservices in the cloud

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ServiceFabric: a distributed platform for building microservices in the cloud Kakivaya et al., EuroSys'18 (If you don’t have ACM Digital Library access, the paper can be accessed either by following the link above directly from The Morning Paper blog site). Microsoft’s Service Fabric powers many of Azure’s critical services. It’s been in development for around ... Continue Reading

Hyperledger fabric: a distributed operating system for permissioned blockchains

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Hyperledger fabric: a distributed operating system for permissioned blockchains Androulaki et al., EuroSys'18 (If you don’t have ACM Digital Library access, the paper can be accessed either by following the link above directly from The Morning Paper blog site). This very well written paper outlines the design of HyperLedger Fabric and the rationales for many ... Continue Reading

ForkBase: an efficient storage engine for blockchain and forkable applications

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ForkBase: an efficient storage engine for blockchain and forkable applications Wang et al., arXiv'18 ForkBase is a data storage system designed to support applications that need a combination of data versioning, forking, and tamper proofing. The prime example being blockchain systems, but this could also include collaborative applications such as GoogleDocs. Today for example Ethereum ... Continue Reading