Design space of distributed file systems

Warning: This is work in progress, so this post will be updated TODO: Make a table of the file systems mentioned e.g. in CRUSH paper (related work section). Design space A subset of properties that can considered when designing a…

Reading diary, 29 August 2012

Today I’m reading about the PNUTS distributed database that was developed by Yahoo. I’m giving the PNUTS paper pass 1:3, and reading some background material I found on highscalability about the database. The paper: PNUTS: Yahoo!’s Hosted Data Serving Platform…

Reading diary August 28, 2012

I’m keeping public track of what I read. Today I read three papers using the three pass method. First pass I did a first pass over two papers on distributed file systems. Both papers are by authors Sage A. Weil,…

Readings in distributed systems

Below are four different (partially overlapping) lists of papers one should read in distributed systems. Dan Creswell: A Distributed Systems Reading List Swami Sivasubramanian: Building scalable systems Dr. Manish Parashar: Parallel and Distributed Computing Bytepawn: Readings in distributed systems (currently…

Python: inverse of zip

So you have a list of tuples, created with the zip built-in function in Python. Like this: z = [(1, ‘a’), (2, ‘b’), (3, ‘c’)] And you want to reverse zip, to get these two lists: x = [1, 2,…