Boki is a new serverless runtime that exports a shared log API to serverless functions. Boki
shared logs enable stateful serverless applications to manage their state with durability …

Data is a precious resource in today's society, and it is generated at an unprecedented and
constantly growing pace. The need to store, analyze, and make data promptly available to a …

The Internet of Things (IoT) represents a new class of applications that can benefit from
cloud infrastructure. However, the current approach of directly connecting smart devices to …

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

Serverless computing separates function execution from state management. Simple retry-
based fault tolerance might corrupt the shared state with duplicate updates. Existing …

FoundationDB is an open source transactional key value store created more than ten years
ago. It is one of the first systems to combine the flexibility and scalability of NoSQL …

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 …

© 2020, VLDB Endowment. Deterministic databases are able to efficiently run transactions
across different replicas without coordination. However, existing state-of-the-art deterministic …

Blockchain has come a long way-a system that was initially proposed specifically for
cryptocurrencies is now being adapted and adopted as a general-purpose transactional …

Increasing transaction volumes have led to a resurgence of interest in distributed transaction
processing. In particular, partitioning data across several servers can improve throughput by …