OpenStack Swift eventual consistency analysis & bottlenecks
Swift is the software behind the OpenStack Object Storage service.
This service provides a simple storage service for applications using RESTful interfaces, providing maximum data availability and storage capacity.
I explain here how some parts of the storage and replication in Swift works, and show some of its current limitations.
If you don’t know Swift and want to read a more “shallow” overview first, you can read John Dickinson’s Swift Tech Overview.