Wes Chow (Mini) on Tiered Replication: A Cost-effective Alternative to Full Cluster Geo-replication

Meetup: http://bit.ly/2bB8fy3
Paper: http://bit.ly/2b2f2yV
Slides: http://bit.ly/2bBbKVj
Video: https://youtu.be/JMmV4wwXvCs
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Description
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Tiered Replication, by Cidon et. al, explores the problem of effective data replication strategies first introduced in the Copysets paper, awarded 2013 Usenix ATC Best Student Paper. While Copysets introduced a randomized algorithm for solving NP Hard redundancy and load balancing constraints around placement of data in distributed filesystem, Tiered Replication proposes a greedy algorithm for solving the same problem and also adding the ability to bake in real world constraints such as rack awareness. Wes will summarize the problem Copysets proposed, show Tiered...