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Starting from file systems, relational databases, and disk characteristics, this article supplements the Distributed Storage From Scratch s…

As the prologue to this series, this article explains the goals, overall architecture, and upcoming content plan for building a distributed…

This article introduces the control plane, client-side routing, and load-balancing design of Google Slicer, an auto-sharding component.

This article excerpts and organizes the overall architecture of relational database systems, including core components such as query proces…

This article outlines how Google Percolator implements cross-row transactions and reliable notifications on top of Bigtable, with a focus o…

This article introduces the formal framework of a paper on transactional consistency models and explains the intuitive meaning of concepts …

This article summarizes how the ARC cache replacement algorithm adaptively balances recency and frequency, and explains its advantages over…

This article gives beginner readers an overview of the basic problems, common solutions, technical challenges, and learning directions for …

This article discusses core issues in large-scale cluster operations automation, including automatic fault detection, automatic remediation…

This article outlines the design goals of Microsoft's Autopilot cluster management system, as well as its mechanisms for machine lifecycle …