Dynamo: Amazon’s Highly Available Key-value Store

Amazon has published a whitepaper about it's highly available Key/Value store Dynamo. Dynamo you may recall has been pointed to as part inspiration for Apache's Cassandra data store.

The whitepaper details many important details such as requirements, design considerations, SLAs and system architecture.

Definitely worth a look.

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