coordination on Sparse Notes https://sparsenotes.com/tags/coordination/ Recent content in coordination on Sparse Notes https://sparsenotes.com/images/og-default.png https://sparsenotes.com/images/og-default.png Hugo -- gohugo.io Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The Chubby Lock Service for Loosely-Coupled Distributed Systems https://sparsenotes.com/posts/2026/07/papers/chubby-lock-service-2006/ Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://sparsenotes.com/posts/2026/07/papers/chubby-lock-service-2006/ Mike Burrows' 2006 Chubby paper — how Google turned a Paxos-backed lock service into the coordination substrate underneath GFS, BigTable, and every service that came after.