mmcgrana/services-engineering

Paper: Highly Available Transactions: Virtues and Limitations

Highly Available Transactions: Virtues and Limitations (Bailis et al.) A very recent but excellent paper.

• Opened by mmcgrana Oct 11, 2013

Book: Security Engineering

Security Engineering (Anderson)

• Opened by mmcgrana Oct 9, 2013
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Incremental rollouts

Also "one, some, many, all".

• Opened by mmcgrana Oct 7, 2013
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Incident response and management

• Opened by mmcgrana Oct 7, 2013
• 5 comments

Alerting and on-call

• Opened by mmcgrana Oct 7, 2013
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Percentiles not averages

Reminded of this while reading Dynamo paper. Basic topic but probably can find a good short post that discusses it.

• Opened by mmcgrana Oct 7, 2013
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Paper: Raft

Raft is an attempt at making a consensus algorithm that is easily understandable(compared with Paxos). https://ramcloud.stanford.edu/wiki/download/attachments/11370504/raft.pdf

• Opened by edmellum Oct 7, 2013
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Dynamo database paper

Dynamo is easily understandable and a good intro to distributed eventually consisted databases. http://www.read.seas.harvard.edu/~kohler/class/cs239-w08/decandia07dynamo.pdf

• Opened by edmellum Oct 7, 2013

Intro distributed systems

- Books - Courseware

• Opened by mmcgrana Oct 6, 2013
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Book: Web Operations

Web Operations (Allspaw and Robbins)

• Opened by mmcgrana Oct 6, 2013
• 1 comment