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+\usepackage{tabu}
+\usepackage{multicol}
+\usepackage{vwcol}
+\usepackage{stmaryrd}
+\usepackage{graphicx}
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+\usepackage[normalem]{ulem}
+
+\title{Introducing Garage}
+\subtitle{a new storage platform for self-hosted geo-distributed clusters}
+\author{Deuxfleurs Association}
+\date{IMT Atlantique, 2022-06-23}
+
+\begin{document}
+
+\begin{frame}
+	\centering
+	\includegraphics[width=.3\linewidth]{../../sticker/Garage.pdf}
+	\vspace{1em}
+
+	{\large\bf Deuxfleurs Association}
+	\vspace{1em}
+
+	\url{https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/}
+
+	Matrix channel: \texttt{\#garage:deuxfleurs.fr}
+\end{frame}
+
+\begin{frame}
+	\frametitle{Who we are}
+	\begin{columns}[t]
+		\begin{column}{.2\textwidth}
+			\centering
+			\adjincludegraphics[width=.4\linewidth, valign=t]{assets/alex.jpg}
+		\end{column}
+		\begin{column}{.6\textwidth}
+			\textbf{Alex Auvolat}\\
+			PhD at Inria, team WIDE; co-founder of Deuxfleurs
+		\end{column}
+		\begin{column}{.2\textwidth}
+			~
+		\end{column}
+	\end{columns}
+	\vspace{1em}
+
+	\begin{columns}[t]
+		\begin{column}{.2\textwidth}
+			~
+		\end{column}
+		\begin{column}{.6\textwidth}
+			\textbf{Quentin Dufour}\\
+			PhD at Inria, team WIDE; co-founder of Deuxfleurs
+		\end{column}
+		\begin{column}{.2\textwidth}
+			\centering
+			\adjincludegraphics[width=.5\linewidth, valign=t]{assets/quentin.jpg}
+		\end{column}
+	\end{columns}
+	\vspace{2em}
+
+	\begin{columns}[t]
+		\begin{column}{.2\textwidth}
+			\centering
+			\adjincludegraphics[width=.5\linewidth, valign=t]{assets/deuxfleurs.pdf}
+		\end{column}
+		\begin{column}{.6\textwidth}
+			\textbf{Deuxfleurs}\\
+			A non-profit self-hosting collective,\\
+			member of the CHATONS network
+		\end{column}
+		\begin{column}{.2\textwidth}
+			\centering
+			\adjincludegraphics[width=.7\linewidth, valign=t]{assets/logo_chatons.png}
+		\end{column}
+	\end{columns}
+
+\end{frame}
+
+\begin{frame}
+	\frametitle{Our objective at Deuxfleurs}
+	
+	\begin{center}
+		\textbf{Promote self-hosting and small-scale hosting\\
+			as an alternative to large cloud providers}
+	\end{center}
+	\vspace{2em}
+	\visible<2->{
+		Why is it hard?
+	}
+	\visible<3->{
+		\vspace{2em}
+		\begin{center}
+			\textbf{\underline{Resilience}}\\
+			{\footnotesize (we want good uptime/availability with low supervision)}
+		\end{center}
+	}
+\end{frame}
+
+\begin{frame}
+	\frametitle{How to make a \underline{stable} system}
+
+	Enterprise-grade systems typically employ:
+	\vspace{1em}
+	\begin{itemize}
+		\item RAID
+		\item Redundant power grid + UPS
+		\item Redundant Internet connections
+		\item Low-latency links
+		\item ... 
+	\end{itemize}
+	\vspace{1em}
+	$\to$ it's costly and only worth it at DC scale
+\end{frame}
+
+\begin{frame}
+	\frametitle{How to make a \underline{resilient} system}
+
+	\only<1,4-5>{
+		Instead, we use:
+		\vspace{1em}
+		\begin{itemize}
+			\item \textcolor<2->{gray}{Commodity hardware (e.g. old desktop PCs)}
+				\vspace{.5em}
+			\item<4-> \textcolor<5->{gray}{Commodity Internet (e.g. FTTB, FTTH) and power grid}
+				\vspace{.5em}
+			\item<5-> \textcolor<6->{gray}{\textbf{Geographical redundancy} (multi-site replication)}
+		\end{itemize}
+	}
+	\only<2>{
+		\begin{center}
+			\includegraphics[width=.8\linewidth]{assets/atuin.jpg}
+		\end{center}
+	}
+	\only<3>{
+		\begin{center}
+			\includegraphics[width=.8\linewidth]{assets/neptune.jpg}
+		\end{center}
+	}
+	\only<6>{
+		\begin{center}
+			\includegraphics[width=.5\linewidth]{assets/inframap.jpg}
+		\end{center}
+	}
+\end{frame}
+
+\begin{frame}
+	\frametitle{How to make this happen}
+	\begin{center}
+		\only<1>{\includegraphics[width=.8\linewidth]{assets/slide1.png}}%
+		\only<2>{\includegraphics[width=.8\linewidth]{assets/slide2.png}}%
+		\only<3>{\includegraphics[width=.8\linewidth]{assets/slide3.png}}%
+	\end{center}
+\end{frame}
+
+\begin{frame}
+	\frametitle{Distributed file systems are slow}
+	File systems are complex, for example:
+	\vspace{1em}
+	\begin{itemize}
+		\item Concurrent modification by several processes
+			\vspace{1em}
+		\item Folder hierarchies
+			\vspace{1em}
+		\item Other requirements of the POSIX spec
+	\end{itemize}
+	\vspace{1em}
+	Coordination in a distributed system is costly
+
+	\vspace{1em}
+	Costs explode with commodity hardware / Internet connections\\
+	{\small (we experienced this!)}
+\end{frame}
+
+\begin{frame}
+	\frametitle{A simpler solution: object storage}
+	Only two operations:
+	\vspace{1em}
+	\begin{itemize}
+		\item Put an object at a key
+			\vspace{1em}
+		\item Retrieve an object from its key
+	\end{itemize}
+	\vspace{1em}
+	{\footnotesize (and a few others)}
+
+	\vspace{1em}
+	Sufficient for many applications!
+\end{frame}
+
+\begin{frame}
+	\frametitle{A simpler solution: object storage}
+		\begin{center}
+			\includegraphics[width=.2\linewidth]{../2020-12-02_wide-team/img/Amazon-S3.jpg}
+			\hspace{5em}
+			\includegraphics[width=.2\linewidth]{assets/minio.png}
+		\end{center}
+		\vspace{1em}
+	S3: a de-facto standard, many compatible applications
+
+	\vspace{1em}
+
+	MinIO is self-hostable but not suited for geo-distributed deployments
+\end{frame}
+
+
+\begin{frame}
+	\frametitle{But what is Garage, exactly?}
+	\textbf{Garage is a self-hosted drop-in replacement for the Amazon S3 object store}\\
+	\vspace{.5em}
+	that implements resilience through geographical redundancy on commodity hardware
+		\begin{center}
+			\includegraphics[width=.8\linewidth]{assets/garageuses.png}
+		\end{center}
+\end{frame}
+
+\begin{frame}
+	\frametitle{Overview}
+	\begin{center}
+		\only<1>{\includegraphics[width=.45\linewidth]{assets/garage2a.drawio.pdf}}%
+		\only<2>{\includegraphics[width=.45\linewidth]{assets/garage2b.drawio.pdf}}%
+	\end{center}
+\end{frame}
+
+\begin{frame}
+	\frametitle{Garage is \emph{location-aware}}
+	\begin{center}
+		\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{assets/location-aware.png}
+	\end{center}
+	\vspace{2em}
+	Garage replicates data on different zones when possible
+\end{frame}
+
+\begin{frame}
+	\frametitle{Garage is \emph{location-aware}}
+		\begin{center}
+			\includegraphics[width=.8\linewidth]{assets/map.png}
+		\end{center}
+\end{frame}
+
+\begin{frame}
+	\frametitle{How to spread files over different cluster nodes?}
+	\textbf{Consistent hashing (DynamoDB):}
+	\vspace{1em}
+
+	\begin{center}
+	\only<1>{\includegraphics[width=.45\columnwidth]{assets/consistent_hashing_1.pdf}}%
+	\only<2>{\includegraphics[width=.45\columnwidth]{assets/consistent_hashing_2.pdf}}%
+	\only<3>{\includegraphics[width=.45\columnwidth]{assets/consistent_hashing_3.pdf}}%
+	\only<4>{\includegraphics[width=.45\columnwidth]{assets/consistent_hashing_4.pdf}}%
+	\end{center}
+\end{frame}
+
+\begin{frame}
+	\frametitle{How to spread files over different cluster nodes?}
+	\textbf{Issues with consistent hashing:}
+	\vspace{1em}
+	\begin{itemize}
+		\item Doesn't dispatch data based on geographical location of nodes
+			\vspace{1em}
+		\item<2-> Geographically aware adaptation, try 1:\\
+			data quantities not well balanced between nodes
+			\vspace{1em}
+		\item<3-> Geographically aware adaptation, try 2:\\
+			too many reshuffles when adding/removing nodes
+	\end{itemize}
+\end{frame}
+
+\begin{frame}
+	\frametitle{How to spread files over different cluster nodes?}
+	\textbf{Garage's method: build an index table}
+	\vspace{1em}
+
+	Realization: we can actually precompute an optimal solution
+	\vspace{1em}
+
+	\visible<2->{
+		\begin{center}
+		\begin{tabular}{|l|l|l|l|}
+			\hline
+			\textbf{Partition} & \textbf{Node 1} & \textbf{Node 2} & \textbf{Node 3} \\
+			\hline
+			\hline
+			Partition 0 & Io (jupiter) & Drosera (atuin) & Courgette (neptune) \\
+			\hline
+			Partition 1 & Datura (atuin) & Courgette (neptune) & Io (jupiter) \\
+			\hline
+			Partition 2 & Io(jupiter) & Celeri (neptune) & Drosera (atuin) \\
+			\hline
+			\hspace{1em}$\vdots$ & \hspace{1em}$\vdots$ & \hspace{1em}$\vdots$ & \hspace{1em}$\vdots$ \\
+			\hline
+			Partition 255 & Concombre (neptune) & Io (jupiter) & Drosera (atuin) \\
+			\hline
+		\end{tabular}
+		\end{center}
+	}
+	\vspace{1em}
+	\visible<3->{
+		The index table is built centrally using an optimal* algorithm,\\
+		then propagated to all nodes\\
+		\hfill\footnotesize *not yet optimal but will be soon
+	}
+\end{frame}
+
+\begin{frame}
+	\frametitle{Garage's internal data structures}
+	\centering
+	\includegraphics[width=.75\columnwidth]{assets/garage_tables.pdf}
+\end{frame}
+
+%\begin{frame}
+%	\frametitle{Garage's architecture}
+%	\begin{center}
+%		\includegraphics[width=.35\linewidth]{assets/garage.drawio.pdf}
+%	\end{center}
+%\end{frame}
+
+\begin{frame}
+	\frametitle{Garage is \emph{coordination-free}:}
+	\begin{itemize}
+		\item No Raft or Paxos
+			\vspace{1em}
+		\item Internal data types are CRDTs
+			\vspace{1em}
+		\item All nodes are equivalent (no master/leader/index node)
+	\end{itemize}
+			\vspace{2em}
+	$\to$ less sensitive to higher latencies between nodes
+\end{frame}
+
+\begin{frame}
+	\frametitle{Consistency model}
+	\begin{itemize}
+		\item Not ACID (not required by S3 spec) / not linearizable
+			\vspace{1em}
+		\item \textbf{Read-after-write consistency}\\
+			{\footnotesize (stronger than eventual consistency)}
+	\end{itemize}
+\end{frame}
+
+\begin{frame}
+	\frametitle{Impact on performances}
+		\begin{center}
+			\includegraphics[width=.8\linewidth]{assets/endpoint-latency-dc.png}
+		\end{center}
+\end{frame}
+
+
+\begin{frame}
+	\frametitle{An ever-increasing compatibility list}
+		\begin{center}
+			\includegraphics[width=.7\linewidth]{assets/compatibility.png}
+		\end{center}
+\end{frame}
+
+\begin{frame}
+	\frametitle{Further plans for Garage}
+	\begin{center}
+		\only<1>{\includegraphics[width=.8\linewidth]{assets/slideB1.png}}%
+		\only<2>{\includegraphics[width=.8\linewidth]{assets/slideB2.png}}%
+		\only<3>{\includegraphics[width=.8\linewidth]{assets/slideB3.png}}%
+	\end{center}
+\end{frame}
+
+\begin{frame}
+	\frametitle{K2V Design}
+	\begin{itemize}
+		\item A new, custom, minimal API
+			\vspace{1em}
+		\item<2-> Exposes the partitoning mechanism of Garage\\
+			K2V = partition key / sort key / value (like Dynamo)
+			\vspace{1em}
+		\item<3-> Coordination-free, CRDT-friendly (inspired by Riak)\\
+			\vspace{1em}
+		\item<4-> Cryptography-friendly: values are binary blobs
+	\end{itemize}
+\end{frame}
+
+\begin{frame}
+	\frametitle{Application: an e-mail storage server}
+	\begin{center}
+		\only<1>{\includegraphics[width=.9\linewidth]{assets/aerogramme.png}}%
+	\end{center}
+\end{frame}
+
+\begin{frame}
+	\frametitle{Aerogramme data model}
+	\begin{center}
+		\only<1>{\includegraphics[width=.4\linewidth]{assets/aerogramme_datatype.drawio.pdf}}%
+		\only<2->{\includegraphics[width=.9\linewidth]{assets/aerogramme_keys.drawio.pdf}\vspace{1em}}%
+	\end{center}
+	\visible<3->{Aerogramme encrypts all stored values for privacy\\
+	(Garage server administrators can't read your mail)}
+\end{frame}
+
+\begin{frame}
+	\frametitle{Different deployment scenarios}
+	\begin{center}
+		\only<1>{\includegraphics[width=.9\linewidth]{assets/aerogramme_components1.drawio.pdf}}%
+		\only<2>{\includegraphics[width=.9\linewidth]{assets/aerogramme_components2.drawio.pdf}}%
+	\end{center}
+\end{frame}
+
+\begin{frame}
+	\frametitle{A new model for building resilient software}
+	\begin{itemize}
+		\item Design a data model suited to K2V\\
+			{\footnotesize (see Cassandra docs on porting SQL data models to Cassandra)}
+			\vspace{1em}
+			\begin{itemize}
+				\item Use CRDTs or other eventually consistent data types (see e.g. Bayou)
+					\vspace{1em}
+				\item Store opaque binary blobs to provide End-to-End Encryption\\
+			\end{itemize}
+			\vspace{1em}
+		\item Store big blobs (files) in S3
+			\vspace{1em}
+		\item Let Garage manage sharding, replication, failover, etc.
+	\end{itemize}
+\end{frame}
+
+\begin{frame}
+	\frametitle{Research perspectives}
+	\begin{itemize}
+		\item Write about Garage's global architecture \emph{(paper in progress)}
+			\vspace{1em}
+		\item Measure and improve Garage's performances
+			\vspace{1em}
+		\item Discuss the optimal layout algorithm, provide proofs
+			\vspace{1em}
+		\item Write about our proposed architecture for (E2EE) apps over K2V+S3
+	\end{itemize}
+\end{frame}
+
+\begin{frame}
+	\frametitle{Where to find us}
+	\begin{center}
+			\includegraphics[width=.25\linewidth]{../../logo/garage_hires.png}\\
+			\vspace{-1em}
+		\url{https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/}\\
+		\url{mailto:garagehq@deuxfleurs.fr}\\
+		\texttt{\#garage:deuxfleurs.fr} on Matrix
+
+		\vspace{1.5em}
+			\includegraphics[width=.06\linewidth]{assets/rust_logo.png}
+			\includegraphics[width=.13\linewidth]{assets/AGPLv3_Logo.png}
+	\end{center}
+\end{frame}
+
+\end{document}
+
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