Prism: Proxies without the Pain

This paper is included in the Proceedings of the 18th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation. 

Object storage systems, which store data in a flat name space over multiple storage nodes, are essential components for providing data-intensive services such as video streaming or cloud backup. Their bottleneck is usually either the com- pute or the network bandwidth of customer-facing frontend machines, despite much more such capacity being available at backend machines and in the network core. Prism addresses this problem by combining the flexibility and security of tradi- tional frontend proxy architectures with the performance and resilience of modern key-value stores that optimize for small I/O patterns and typically use custom, UDP-based protocols inside a datacenter. 

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The paper can be found at: https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi21/presentation/hayakawa