Research Papers

Papers I've published, and papers worth reading.

Published by Me

TODO: Add papers I've authored/co-authored here.

C-Store: A Column-oriented DBMS

Stonebraker et al. — the foundational paper introducing the column-oriented DBMS architecture.
Maglev: A Fast and Reliable Software Network Load Balancer

Eisenbud et al. (Google) — how Google built a software load balancer that scales out via consistent hashing and ECMP, with no single point of failure.
The Chubby Lock Service for Loosely-Coupled Distributed Systems

Burrows (Google) — the design of Google's distributed lock service, and why coarse-grained locking and small-file storage turned out to be the right abstraction for coordinating distributed systems.