Infrastructure Project

The goal of this project is to implement a significant piece of distributed systems infrastructure. This need not be an original idea or service, as the goal is to get implementation experience. Thus, it is fine to build your own implementation of GFS or DynamoDB or LARD.

Suggestions

Implement your own version of map-reduce
Key-value store with your own choice of consistency/availability/durability metrics
Kerberos authentication protocol
Distributed file system
A load balancing cache, perhaps for a file system
A cluster-scheduling service
A file system or key/value store using Paxos or Byzantine fault tolerance
A lock service like Chubby

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