Dr. Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau from the University of Wisconsin-Madison showed us how the simplest of things, like updating a file on a disk using a file system, is subtly complex and highly error-prone. File systems differ in semantics and the handling of edge cases. Through automated tools, he and his students have uncovered hidden assumptions in highly deployed systems, like Git, on specific file system behaviors that are not always correct. Assumptions can be about atomicity, failure handling, crash consistency guarantees, and more. This talk took us through the nuts and bolts of the lowest levels of storage systems.
Tag Archives: databases
Spanner, TrueTime & The CAP Theorem
Spanner is Google’s highly available global SQL database [CDE+12]. It manages replicated data at great
scale, both in terms of size of data and volume of transactions. It assigns globally consistent real-time
timestamps to every datum written to it, and clients can do globally consistent reads across the entire
database without locking.
Source: https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/whitepapers/SpannerAndCap.pdf
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