This paper will be presented by Johannes Hoff.

This paper describes how Facebook stores 700 million data points (timestamp and value) per minute and keeps 26 hours of it available in memory for fast access. We will mainly look at the compression algorithms making this possible.

Here is the abstract:

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Large-scale internet services aim to remain highly available and responsive in the presence of unexpected failures. Pro-viding this service often requires monitoring and analyzing tens of millions of measurements per second across a large number of systems, and one particularly effective solution is to store and query such measurements in a time series database (TSDB).

A key challenge in the design of TSDBs is how to strike the right balance between efficiency, scalability, and relia-bility. In this paper we introduce Gorilla, Facebook’s in-memory TSDB. Our insight is that users of monitoring sys-tems do not place much emphasis on individual data po…

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This month's paper is "The Next 700 Programming Languages" by Peter J. Landin. One of the most influential papers of all time in PL research!

PDF: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~crary/819-f09/Landin66.pdf

Abstract:

A family of unimplemented computing languages is described that is intended to span differences of application area by a unified framework. This framework dictates the rules about the uses of user-coined names, and the conventions about characterizing functional relationships. Within this framework the design of a specific language splits into two independent parts. One is the choice of written appearances of programs (or more generally, their physical representation). The other is the choice of the abstract entities (such as numbers, character-strings, list of them, funct…

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This month's paper is "A comprehensive study of Convergent and Commutative Replicated Data Types" by Marc Shapiro, Nuno Pregui ̧ca, Carlos Baquero, Marek Zawirski.

PDF: http://hal.upmc.fr/inria-00555588/document

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What was the last paper you read and loved within the realm of computing? What did it inspire you to build or tinker with? Come share the ideas in an awesome academic/research paper with fellow engineers, programmers, and paper-readers. Lead a session and show off code that you wrote that implements these ideas or just give us the lowdown about the paper. Or, just come, listen, and discuss!

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This month's paper is "A DNA-Based Archival Storage System" by Bornholt et al. and will be presented by Jeena Lee.

PDF: https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~bornholt/papers/dnastorage-asplos16.pdf

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This month's paper is "A Promising Semantics for Relaxed-Memory Concurrency" by Kang et al. and will be presented by Nick Fitzgerald.

PDF:

https://www.mpi-sws.org/~orilahav/papers/main.pdf

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This month's paper is "Top 10 algorithms in data mining" by Wu et al. and will be presented by Lisa Orr.

PDF: 

http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~icdm/algorithms/10Algorithms-08.pdf

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This month's paper is "Immix: A Mark-Region Garbage Collector with Space Efficiency, Fast Collection, and Mutator Performance" by Stephen M. Blackburn and Kathryn S. McKinley and will be presented by Brian Shirai.

PDF:
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/speedway/DaCapo/papers/immix-pldi-2008.pdf

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This month's paper is "In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm" by Diego Ongaro and John Ousterhout and will be presented by Seth Pellegrino.

PDF:
https://raft.github.io/raft.pdf

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This month's paper is "Detection of Mutual Inconsistency in
Distributed Systems" by Parker, et al. and will be presented by Caitie McCaffrey.

PDF:
http://zoo.cs.yale.edu/classes/cs422/2013/bib/parker83detection.pdf

Caitie's Bio:
Caitie McCaffrey is a Backend Brat and Distributed Systems Diva at Twitter. Prior to that she built services and systems that power the entertainment industry at 343 Industries, Microsoft Game Studios, and HBO. While at 343 Industries she partnered with the eXtreme Computing Group in Microsoft Research to productionize Orleans as part of her work rewriting the Halo Services. Caitie has a degree in Computer Science from Cornell University She maintains a blog at CaitieM.com and…

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This month's paper is "Dynamic Cicular Work-Stealing Deque" by David Chase and Yossi Lev, and will be presented by Nick Fitzgerald.

PDF: http://neteril.org/~jeremie/Dynamic_Circular_Work_Queue.pdf

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