README.md

Documentation

I hope that the reader that will bear with reading this, will then be able to fully understand the system, and implement one himself if he decides so.

Chapter 1: Architecture

• Chapter 1.1: The problem
• Chapter 1.2: Design principles
• Chapter 1.3: The distributed machine
  • Chapter 1.3.1: The instruction set
• Chapter 1.4: Consistency Model

Chapter 2: Leaderless partitioning and replication

• Chapter 2.1: Introduction
• Chapter 2.2: Rendezvous based routing
• Chapter 2.3: Gossip agreement protocol
• [Chapter 2.4] Examples
  • Chapter 2.4.1: Partitions and replicas
  • Chapter 2.4.2: Key routing
  • Chapter 2.4.3: Gossip rounds

Chapter 3: YottaFS

• Chapter 3.1: The best filesystem
• Chapter 3.2: Transaction and indexes

Chapter 4: Infrastructure

• Chapter 4.1: Decoupling storage and compute
• Chapter 4.2: Hybrid cloud and standby replicas
• Chapter 4.3: The best node size (queue theory)

Chapter 5: Benchmarking

• Chapter 5.1: Performance and costs estimates