We will play the conference presentation at the beginning of class, followed by a discussion. The discussion will go best if we've all read the paper beforehand.
Readings
4/10 Guest speaker: Ryan McElroy, Scaling Memcache at Facebook, NSDI 2013
4/17 Spanner: Google's Globally Distributed Database, OSDI 2012
4/24 Aapo Kyrola, GraphChi: Large-Scale Graph Computation on Just a PC, OSDI 2012
5/1 Embassies: Radically Refactoring the Web, NSDI 2013
5/8 Stronger Semantics for Low-Latency Geo-Replicated Storage, NSDI 2013
5/15 David Walker, Composing Software Defined Networks, NSDI 2013
5/22 Andrew Baumann, Composing OS extensions safely and efficiently with Bascule, Eurosys 2013
5/29 Robustness in the Salus Scalable Block Store, NSDI 2013
6/5 On Chip Networks from a Networking Perspective, SIGCOMM 2012