Corrina Sivak on Dynamo: Amazon's Highly Available Key-Value Store [PWL Tokyo] (opens in new tab)

Corrina Sivak presents the seminal Dynamo paper from Amazon in Tokyo on April 30, 2026\. Paper: This paper presents the design and implementation of Dynamo, a highly available key-value storage system that some of Amazon’s core services use to provide an “always-on” experience\. To achieve this level of availability, Dynamo sacrifices consistency under certain failure scenarios\. It makes extensive use of object versioning and application-assisted conflict resolution in a manner that provide...