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• Dynamo: Amazon’s always-writeable key-value store, explained

  Oct 26, 2026 12 min read

  How Amazon's 2007 Dynamo kept carts writable: consistent hashing, sloppy quorums, hinted handoff, vector clocks, Merkle anti-entropy, and gossip (SOSP '07).

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