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Citation
Tudor Marian, Ken Birman, Robbert van Renesse. "A Scalable Services Architecture". Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2006), October, 2006.

Abstract
Data centers constructed as clusters of inexpensive machines have compelling cost-performance benefits, but developing services to run on them can be challenging. This paper reports on a new framework, the Scalable Services Architecture (SSA), which helps developers develop scalable clustered applications. The work is focused on nontransactional high-performance applications; these are poorly supported in existing platforms. A primary goal was to keep the SSA as small and simple as possible. Key elements include a TCP-based “chain replication” mechanism and a gossip-based subsystem for managing configuration data and repairing inconsistencies after faults. Our experimental results confirm the effectiveness of the approach.

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  Tudor Marian, Ken Birman, Robbert van Renesse. <a
  href="http://www.truststc.org/pubs/163.html" >A
  Scalable Services Architecture</a>, Proceedings of the
  IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2006),
  October, 2006.

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  Tudor Marian, Ken Birman, Robbert van Renesse. "A
  Scalable Services Architecture". Proceedings of the
  IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2006),
  October, 2006.

• BibTeX

  @inproceedings{MarianBirmanvanRenesse06_ScalableServicesArchitecture,
      author = {Tudor Marian and Ken Birman and Robbert van Renesse},
      title = {A Scalable Services Architecture},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Reliable
                Distributed Systems (SRDS 2006)},
      month = {October},
      year = {2006},
      abstract = {Data centers constructed as clusters of
                inexpensive machines have compelling
                cost-performance benefits, but developing services
                to run on them can be challenging. This paper
                reports on a new framework, the Scalable Services
                Architecture (SSA), which helps developers develop
                scalable clustered applications. The work is
                focused on nontransactional high-performance
                applications; these are poorly supported in
                existing platforms. A primary goal was to keep the
                SSA as small and simple as possible. Key elements
                include a TCP-based �chain replication�
                mechanism and a gossip-based subsystem for
                managing configuration data and repairing
                inconsistencies after faults. Our experimental
                results confirm the effectiveness of the approach.},
      URL = {http://www.truststc.org/pubs/163.html}
  }
  

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