The Chubby Lock Service for Loosely-Coupled Distributed Systems
Weekly Paper Notes — Seminal Paper of the Week for the 2026-07-11 CS paper digest. Area: Distributed Computing / Coordination. Author: Mike Burrows (Google) Venue: OSDI ‘06 — The Chubby lock service for loosely-coupled distributed systems Canonical link: OSDI ‘06 proceedings · PDF Why the paper still matters Twenty years after publication, Chubby is the paper you can point at to explain almost every coordination system in the modern datacenter....