Clustered Event-Driven Services
Explore clustered event-driven services using Raft consensus for state replication. Learn benefits over traditional architectures and how it supports domain-driven design for fast, resilient services.
Cloud Chaos and Microservices Mayhem
Explore cloud and microservices challenges, learn new management models, and discover how contract testing can enhance robustness and independent deployment in microservices architecture.
Hiding a Secret Distributed Chat System in 802.11 Management Frames
Explore a covert distributed chat system using 802.11 management frames, featuring AES encryption, extended network coverage, and data exfiltration capabilities for secure communications.
Workflows, a New Abstraction for Distributed Systems
Explore how Workflow Systems revolutionize distributed systems development, mitigating challenges like failure at the platform level and enabling coding as if failures don't exist.
Your Infrastructure Needs to D.I.E.
Explore how Distributed, Immutable, and Ephemeral (D.I.E.) infrastructure enhances cloud-native security, integrating controlled chaos for continuous improvement and increased resilience against modern threats.
DispersedLedger - High-Throughput Byzantine Consensus on Variable Bandwidth Networks
Explores a novel Byzantine fault tolerant protocol for high-throughput consensus on variable bandwidth networks, optimizing blockchain performance in wide area deployments.
C2DN - How to Harness Erasure Codes at the Edge for Efficient Content Delivery
Explore innovative CDN design using erasure coding for improved performance, efficiency, and load balancing in content delivery networks.
DEPART - Replica Decoupling for Distributed Key-Value Storage
Innovative approach to distributed key-value storage using replica decoupling, enhancing I/O efficiency and performance. Implements two-layer log for tunable ordering, outperforming Cassandra in various scenarios.
FuturesMEX - Secure, Distributed Futures Market Exchange
Explore a secure, distributed futures market exchange protocol with key operations, security properties, and economic viability considerations for low-frequency trading environments.
Scalable Bias-Resistant Distributed Randomness
Explore scalable protocols for generating unbiased public randomness in distributed systems, focusing on RandHound and RandHerd's innovative approaches to ensure integrity and efficiency.
Creating a Distributed Round Robin Scheduler with Etcd
Explore the challenges and insights of building a distributed round-robin scheduler using etcd for persistence and consensus in this developer-focused journey.
Measure, Then Build
Explore an empirically-driven approach to systems research, focusing on analyzing existing systems before designing new solutions. Learn from two decades of research examples at UW-Madison.
Citron - Distributed Range Lock Management with One-sided RDMA
Innovative distributed range lock management system using one-sided RDMA, enhancing concurrent access to shared storage with improved throughput and reduced latency compared to CPU-based approaches.
Fisc - A Large-scale Cloud-native-oriented File System
Innovative cloud-native file system addressing challenges in container-based applications. Introduces lightweight client, DPU-based offloading, storage-aware mechanism, and full path QoS for improved performance and resource efficiency.
COBRA - Dynamic Proactive Secret Sharing for Confidential BFT Services
Explore dynamic proactive secret sharing for confidential Byzantine Fault Tolerant services, enhancing security in distributed systems with innovative techniques.
Virtual Consensus in Delos
Explores virtualizing consensus in replicated systems, enabling dynamic protocol changes without downtime. Introduces VirtualLog and Loglets for simplified, diverse, and composable consensus implementations, showcasing benefits in the Delos database.
SPURT - Scalable Distributed Randomness Beacon with Transparent Setup
Explore a scalable, distributed randomness beacon system with transparent setup, offering insights into advanced cryptographic protocols and blockchain applications.
Assise - Performance and Availability via NVM Colocation in a Distributed File System
Explores a novel distributed file system leveraging persistent memory modules for enhanced IO performance, rapid failover, and strong consistency, outperforming traditional remote storage models.
What's the Cost of a Millisecond?
Exploring latency amplification in microservices, this talk reveals how a single millisecond delay can significantly impact user-visible latency, emphasizing the importance of optimizing deep-stack performance.
Let the Chaos Begin - SRE Chaos Engineering Meets Cybersecurity
Explore Security Chaos Engineering's role in uncovering system vulnerabilities and enhancing cyber resiliency. Learn to formulate and verify hypotheses through practical experimentation.
Distributed Trust - Is “Blockchain” the Answer?
Explore distributed trust systems and evaluate blockchain's effectiveness in addressing reliability issues in the presence of misbehaving participants. Gain insights from industry expert Radia Perlman.