Cobra - Making Transactional Key-Value Stores Verifiably Serializable
Explore techniques for verifying serializability in transactional key-value stores, focusing on Cobra's innovative approach to handling real-world workloads and improving verification efficiency.
Amazon DynamoDB - A Scalable, Predictably Performant, and Fully Managed NoSQL Database Service
Explore Amazon DynamoDB's architecture, scalability, and performance optimizations. Learn how it handles massive workloads, ensures reliability, and evolves to meet increasing demands.
Scaling Memcache at Facebook
Explore Facebook's scaling of memcached to support billions of requests per second and trillions of items, enabling a rich experience for over a billion users worldwide.
Efficiently Backing Up Terabytes of Data with PgBackRest
Explore efficient PostgreSQL backup solutions with PgBackRest, featuring checksums, compression, parallel transfer, and more. Learn about its design, features, and practical applications for large-scale databases.
I Don't Own the Data - End User Perceptions of Smart Home Device Data Practices and Risks
Explores user perceptions of smart home device data practices, revealing uncertainties about data handling and how experiences shape security concerns and behaviors in connected homes.
Spanner - Google’s Globally-Distributed Database
Explore Google's Spanner: a globally-distributed database with scalability, multi-version support, and synchronous replication. Learn about its structure, features, and innovative time API for external consistency.
CRaft - An Erasure-coding-supported Version of Raft for Reducing Storage Cost
Explores CRaft, an erasure-coding-supported version of Raft consensus protocol, reducing storage and network costs while maintaining fault tolerance and liveness. Presents design, challenges, and performance improvements.
The Future of the Past - Challenges in Archival Storage
Explores challenges and advancements in long-term digital data preservation, discussing media technologies, data integrity, and semantic interpretation for future generations.
MatrixKV - Reducing Write Stalls and Write Amplification in LSM-tree Based KV Stores
Innovative LSM-tree based key-value store design using NVM to reduce write stalls and amplification. Introduces matrix container, column compaction, and cross-row hint search for improved performance in multi-tier storage systems.
Performance-Optimal Read-Only Transactions
Explores performance-optimal read-only transactions in distributed storage systems, introducing PORT design with version clocks for improved consistency and efficiency in applications like Scylla-PORT and Eiger-PORT.
MySQL Automation at Facebook Scale
Explore Facebook's MySQL automation systems for managing thousands of servers across data centers, including design, architecture, and real-world challenges faced at massive scale.
Scaling Shopify's Multi-Tenant Architecture across Multiple Datacenters
Explore Shopify's journey from a single-database Rails app to a multi-datacenter setup, focusing on scalability, resiliency, and disaster recovery strategies for multi-tenant architectures.
From 15,000 Database Connections to Under 100 - A Tech Debt Tale
Explore a multi-year tech debt resolution journey, focusing on reducing database connections from 15,000 to under 100. Learn strategies for handling scaling challenges in distributed systems.
Optimizing Cost and Performance with Arm64
Explore how Honeycomb.io optimized cost and performance by migrating to arm64 architecture, reducing compute costs by 40% while improving latency, despite challenges in software compatibility and ecosystem complexity.
Exploring and Exploiting the SQLite
Explore SQLite vulnerabilities, auditing strategies, and fuzzing techniques. Learn about Magellan 2.0, shadow tables, and bypassing defense mechanisms for remote code execution in Chrome and SQLite binaries.
SSRF PWNs - New Techniques and Stories
Découvrez de nouvelles techniques d'attaques SSRF, leurs impacts sur la sécurité des applications web et des exemples concrets d'exploitation, présentés par deux experts en sécurité informatique.
Got Popcorn? What's on the Vuln Channel Tonight?
Explore a platform for automated code scanning and vulnerability data streaming, designed to provide developers with fast, timely information on potential security issues.
Back to the SOCless Future
Explore Twilio's journey towards automated security operations, featuring insights on scalable 24/7 monitoring and a serverless automation framework for effective threat response.
The Evolution of a Planetary-scale Distributed Database
Explore the evolution of New Relic's telemetry database, from its inception to a globally distributed system. Learn about architectural challenges, solutions, and insights into building large-scale distributed systems.
Turn Your JSON into a Graph in 2 Lines
Explore Asami, an open-source graph database with flexible data structures, functional operations, and easy JSON-to-graph conversion. Learn its architecture and novel graph analysis capabilities.
ChaosDB - How We Hacked Databases of Thousands of Azure Customers
Uncover the critical ChaosDB vulnerability in Azure Cosmos DB, allowing unauthorized access to thousands of customer databases. Learn about the discovery, exploitation, and implications of this unprecedented cloud security flaw.