SOSP2021

Shard Manager: A Generic Shard Management Framework for Geo-distributed Applications

Sangmin Lee, Zhenhua Guo, Omer Sunercan, Jun Ying, Thawan Kooburat, Suryadeep Biswal, Jun Chen, Kun Huang, Yatpang Cheung, Yiding Zhou, Kaushik Veeraraghavan, Biren Damani, Pol Mauri Ruiz, Vikas Mehta, Chunqiang Tang

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摘要

Sharding is widely used to scale an application. Despite a decade of effort to build generic sharding frameworks that can be reused across different applications, the extent of their success remains unclear. We attempt to answer a fundamental question: what barriers prevent a sharding framework from getting adopted by the majority of sharded applications?