This paper presents an approach for constructing distributed storage system based on micro-service architecture. By building storage functionalities using micro services, we can provide new capabilities to a distributed storage system in a flexible way. We take erasure coding and compression as two case studies to show how to build a micro-service based distributed storage system. We also show that by building erasure coding and compression as micro-services, the distributed storage system still achieves reasonable performance compared to the monolithic one.
@article{arxiv.2107.01119,
title = {A Micro-Service based Approach for Constructing Distributed Storage System},
author = {Yuhao Lu and Zhenqing Liu and Dejun Jiang and Liuying Ma and Jin Xiong},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.01119},
year = {2021}
}