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Burrows: the Chubby lock service

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Distributed systems · METHOD

Reference score145,000Provisional editorial estimate of this exact contribution; its grade is assessed separately.

What changed

Described deployed Chubby locking, leader election, metadata and caching under operational constraints.

Scientific scope

The record is Burrows's sole-author OSDI 2006 paper. The paper explicitly characterizes Chubby as an engineering system built from known ideas rather than a new consensus algorithm; acknowledged implementers and users are not silently added to the target-paper byline.

Evidence

The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The record is Burrows's sole-author OSDI 2006 paper. The paper explicitly characterizes Chubby as an engineering system built from known ideas rather than a new consensus algorithm; acknowledged implementers and users are not silently added to the target-paper byline.

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Provisional WRS assessment, edition 2026-10-16.1. Independent expert calibration is pending. This grade does not certify correctness or assign ownership.

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