Ebay, Incorporated

Sami Ben Romdhane

Bhaven Avalani

Rami El-Charif

Sarang Mukund Kulkarni

Timothy David Robison

Douglas Wayne Hathaway

Steven Bruce West

Tariq Mustafa

Jiankun Yu

Sakib Md Bin Malek

Software defined storage service (SDS) provides users with remote data volumes spread across multiple storage nodes across multiple failure domains. A distributed volume may be spread across replicas (e.g., failure domains), each replica having a number of partitions stored on storage nodes associated with a particular failure domain. In the event of a node failure, a partition stored on the failed node may be dynamically moved and remapped to another node in the same failure domain or within another failure domain that is different from a failure domain that includes a partition that is complementary to the partition stored on the failed node. The partition move and remapping may be transparent to a user. A partition move may occur while a distributed volume is in use by a client device or in an idle (e.g., offline) mode.

Data placement and recovery in the event of partition failures

Defects are identified in a pre-production version of an application. Input used to test the pre-production version is derived from input received by a production version of the application. Input to the production version may be selectively filtered and/or amplified before being provided as test input to the pre-production version. In this way, the makeup and rate of the test input can be controlled while maintaining the character, pattern, and unpredictable nature of real-world input. Defects may be identified when the test input causes the pre-production version to crash, hang, write to an error log, or otherwise manifest or report a malfunction. In addition to identifying defects, filtered and amplified input may also be used to perform regression testing, load testing, performance testing, etc.

Modified database traffic mirroring through a distributed data service

A data storage system may be configured to allocate replica-sets in a balanced manner and mark some of these balanced replica-sets as being spares. As one or more drives or machines fail, the data storage system may move all copies of an affected replica-set to a marked spare replica-set and mark the affected replica-set as being inactive or invalid. As the failed drives are replaced, the data storage system may reconfigure those inactive replica-sets and use them as new spares. The data storage system may implement a coordinator module that handles the balancing and allocation of spares within a sub-cluster. The coordinator may also reallocate entire replica-sets across sub-clusters to maintain balance at the cluster level.

Allocation of replica-sets in a storage cluster

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