Yep had the same reaction to this paper. There’s elegance and cost reduction in separating concerns that are often bundled together (durable storage, sequencing/consensus, state materialization).
I wanted to make those ideas more concrete for engineers building in the Azure/.NET
Always great to see papers that are directly relevant to my interests and work in OSDI (in this case, using S3 as storage layer effectively).
Even better when I know and respect most of the authors!
And the best part is that unlike many industry papers, this one is focused and
