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SUMMARY:TechTalk by Google - The Chubby lock service for loosely-coupled d
 istributed systems - Mike Burrows\,  Principal Engineer\, Google
DTSTART:20071024T131500Z
DTEND:20071024T141500Z
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CONTACT:Timothy G. Griffin
DESCRIPTION:Mike Burrows\, Principal Engineer at Google\, will describe Go
 ogle's experiences with the Chubby lock service\, which is\nintended to pr
 ovide coarse-grained locking as well as reliable (though low-volume) stora
 ge for a\nloosely-coupled distributed system.  Chubby provides an interfac
 e much\nlike a distributed file system with advisory locks\, but the desig
 n emphasis is\non availability and reliability\, as opposed to high perfor
 mance.  Many\ninstances of the service have been used for over a year\, wi
 th several of them\neach handling a few tens of thousands of clients concu
 rrently.  The presentation\ndescribes the initial design and expected use\
 , compares it with actual\nuse\, and explains how the design had to be mod
 ified to accommodate the\ndifferences.\n
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre 1\, Computer Laboratory
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