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Finished reading the DSQL paper. It's surprisingly readable. While the early 2010s era evangelized eventual consistency everywhere, recent years have harkened back to strongly consistent DBs. But this time you get snapshot isolation in a multi-region active-active DB.

Yes. Super readable and devoid of academic jargons. Overall, I highly recommend reading this alongside the dynamo and the s3 paper. Plus this sector of ACID compliant active-active DBs are super exciting. What if we didn't have to let go of SQL ergonomics to get low latency MR database!

The 2022 one reads easy because its an operations paper, about running the service not designing it. the 2007 Dynamo paper is the design half, denser, quorums and consistent hashing. check both for the full arc https://dynotable.com/learn/dynamo-paper-to-dynamodb