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99 lines
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\section{Introduction}
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\begin{frame}{A very casual motivation}
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\begin{center}
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\Large
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I want to host \textbf{resilient web services} with \textbf{acceptable performance} on commodity hardware behind \textbf{household networks}.
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\end{center}
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\vfill
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\begin{block}{Keywords}
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\begin{columns}
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\column{.5\columnwidth}
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\begin{itemize}
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\item Decentralised networks
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\item Edge computing
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\end{itemize}
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\column{.5\columnwidth}
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\begin{itemize}
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\item Distributed storage
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\item Privacy
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\end{itemize}
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\end{columns}
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\end{frame}
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\begin{frame}{Context}
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\textbf{Resilience}: Ability to recover quickly from failures and changes.
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\vspace{1ex}
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Only achievable through distribution of the hosted applications across several physical locations.
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\vfill
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\begin{block}{Application = \textbf{computations} on \textbf{data}}
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\begin{itemize}
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\item \textbf{Computation}: Stateless; easy to distribute \& orchestrate.
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% where it is performed does not matter as long as the application's state is accessible R/W
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%Computation units are "easy" to distribute and orchestrate.
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\item \textbf{Data}: Stateful; hard to distribute \& full of trade-offs.
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\end{itemize}
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\begin{frame}{Concurrent writes example}{How to lose vaccines}
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\centering
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\includegraphics[width=.5\columnwidth]{figures/conflict_problem.pdf}
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\end{frame}
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\begin{frame}{The problem}
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% \textbf{Path dependency}: existing data stores are built for data centres.
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% $\implies$ They assume good inter-node connectivity.
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% \vfill
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\begin{center}
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\Large
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Can we design an available data store tailored for adverse network conditions?
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\end{center}
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% Maybe more framing of the context. What kind of data storage? Object vs Block vs what?
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% \begin{frame}{``Stateless'', ``serverless'', and the elephant in the room}
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% It seems easy to deploy \& administer web services nowadays ...
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% Because the inherent complexity is shadowed by proprietary ``cloud'' solutions.
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% The IT crowd can gloss over ``statelessness'' \emph{ad nauseam} ...
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% But storing \emph{state} remains an open research problem.
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% Data storage is either:
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% \begin{itemize}
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% \item A single point of failure;
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% \item Delegated to proprietary solutions;
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% \item Pain.
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% \end{itemize}
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% Today, we will review networked storage's history, and discuss open research questions.
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