With the Nov. 4 special election around the corner, a handful of polls now show a majority favoring the passage of Proposition 50, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposal to redraw California’s congressional ...

When making a storage system distributed across many machines, designers are faced with a critical question: Where is my data? At the heart of every storage system is a mechanism for determining where ...

To ensure consistent hashing from prompt tokens to block hashes that align with the underlying KVCache index, the block hasher logic must be factored out into a single, shared implementation. Right ...

Low Level Designs of common data structures. These designs keep concurrency control, latency and throughput in mind. We use design patterns where applicable to make the code readable, extensible and ...

Abstract: We present EclipseMR, a novel MapReduce framework prototype that efficiently utilizes a large distributed memory in cluster environments. EclipseMR consists of double-layered consistent hash ...

Abstract: Large scale search engines nowadays use distributed Web crawlers to collect Web pages because it is impractical for a single machine to download the entire Web. Load balancing of such ...