Storage as a Service (StaaS) is a vital component of cloud computing by offering the vision
of a virtually infinite pool of storage resources. It supports a variety of cloud-based data store …

We live in an increasingly interconnected world, with many organizations operating across
countries or even continents. To serve their global user base, organizations are replacing …

Scalability is one of the main roadblocks to business adoption of blockchain systems.
Despite recent intensive research on using sharding techniques to enhance the scalability of …

Internet-scale distributed systems often replicate data at multiple geographic locations to
provide low latency and high availability, despite node and network failures. Geo-replicated …

Application programmers increasingly prefer distributed storage systems with strong
consistency and distributed transactions (eg, Google's Spanner) for their strong guarantees …

This paper introduces Beldi, a library and runtime system for writing and composing fault-
tolerant and transactional stateful serverless functions. Beldi runs on existing providers and …

Distributed storage systems aim to provide strong consistency and isolation guarantees on
an architecture that is partitioned across multiple shards for scalability and replicated for fault …

Geo-replicated storage systems are at the core of current Internet services. The designers of
the replication protocols used by these systems must choose between either supporting low …

Distributed storage systems run transactions across machines to ensure serializability.
Traditional protocols for distributed transactions are based on two-phase locking (2PL) or …

Consensus mechanisms for ensuring consistency are some of the most expensive
operations in managing large amounts of data. Often, there is a trade off that involves …