https://sparsenotes.com/tags/papers-we-love/ Recent content in papers-we-love on Sparse Notes https://sparsenotes.com/images/og-default.png https://sparsenotes.com/images/og-default.png Hugo -- gohugo.io Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://sparsenotes.com/posts/2026/08/dynamo-amazon-key-value-store/ Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://sparsenotes.com/posts/2026/08/dynamo-amazon-key-value-store/ A Papers We Love Tokyo walkthrough of the 2007 Dynamo paper — consistent hashing, virtual nodes, sloppy quorums, vector clocks, Merkle trees — and how much modern DynamoDB quietly abandoned.