The cycle between research and application is often too long and can take decades to complete. It is often asked what bit of research or technology is the most important? Before we can answer that question, I think it's important to take a step back and share the story of why we believe The Dynamo Paper is so essential to our modern world and how we encountered it.

Citations:

DeCandia, G., Hastorun, D., Jampani, M., Kakulapati, G., Lakshman, A., Pilchin, A., ... & Vogels, W. (2007). Dynamo: Amazon’s highly available key-value store. ACM SIGOPS operating systems review, 41(6), 205-220.Karger, D., Lehman, E., Leighton, T., Panigrahy, R., Levine, M., & Lewin, D. (1997, May). Consistent hashing and random trees: Distributed caching protocols for relieving hot spots on the world wide web. In Proceedings of the twenty-ninth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing (pp. 654-663).Lamport, L. (2019). Time, clocks, and the ordering of events in a distributed system. In Concurrency: the Works of Leslie Lamport (pp. 179-196).Merkle, R. C. (1987). A digital signature based on conventional encryption. In Proceedings of the USENIX Secur. Symp (pp. 369-378).

Our Team:

Host: Angelo Kastroulis

Executive Producer: Náture Kastroulis

Producer: Albert Perrotta

Communications Strategist: Albert Perrotta

Audio Engineer: Ryan Thompson

Music: All Things Grow by Oliver Worth

Host: Angelo Kastroulis

Executive Producer: Náture Kastroulis

Producer: Albert Perrotta

Communications Strategist: Albert Perrotta

Video/Audio Engineer: Ryan Thompson

Music: All Things Grow by Oliver Worth