Log-structured cache: trading hit-rate for storage performance (and winning) in mobile devices. - Abutalib Aghayev; Peter Desnoyers (INFLOW@SOSP, 2013)

Skylight-A Window on Shingled Disk Operation. - Abutalib Aghayev; Peter Desnoyers (FAST, 2015)

Skylight - A Window on Shingled Disk Operation. - Abutalib Aghayev; Mansour Shafaei; Peter Desnoyers (ACM Trans. Storage, 2015)

Modeling SMR Drive Performance. - Mansour Shafaei; Mohammad Hossein Hajkazemi; Peter Desnoyers; Abutalib Aghayev (SIGMETRICS, 2016)

Modeling Drive-Managed SMR Performance. - Mansour Shafaei; Mohammad Hossein Hajkazemi; Peter Desnoyers; Abutalib Aghayev (ACM Trans. Storage, 2017)

Evolving Ext4 for Shingled Disks. - Abutalib Aghayev; Theodore Y. Ts'o; Garth Gibson; Peter Desnoyers (login Usenix Mag., 2017)

Litz: Elastic Framework for High-Performance Distributed Machine Learning. - Aurick Qiao; Abutalib Aghayev; Weiren Yu; Haoyang Chen; Qirong Ho; Garth A. Gibson; Eric P. Xing (USENIX ATC, 2018)

File systems unfit as distributed storage backends: lessons from 10 years of Ceph evolution. - Abutalib Aghayev; Sage A. Weil; Michael Kuchnik; Mark Nelson 002; Gregory R. Ganger; George Amvrosiadis (SOSP, 2019)

STRADS-AP: Simplifying Distributed Machine Learning Programming without Introducing a New Programming Model. - Jin Kyu Kim; Abutalib Aghayev; Garth A. Gibson; Eric P. Xing (USENIX ATC, 2019)

The Case for Custom Storage Backends in Distributed Storage Systems. - Abutalib Aghayev; Sage A. Weil; Michael Kuchnik; Mark Nelson 002; Gregory R. Ganger; George Amvrosiadis (ACM Trans. Storage, 2020)

File Systems Unfit as Distributed Storage Back Ends: Lessons from 10 Years of Ceph Evolution. - Abutalib Aghayev; Sage A. Weil; Michael Kuchnik; Mark Nelson 002; Greg Ganger; George Amvrosiadis (login Usenix Mag., 2020)

Metastable failures in distributed systems. - Nathan Bronson; Abutalib Aghayev; Aleksey Charapko; Timothy Zhu (HotOS, 2021)

Scalable but wasteful: current state of replication in the cloud. - Venkata Swaroop Matte; Aleksey Charapko; Abutalib Aghayev (HotStorage, 2021)

ZNS: Avoiding the Block Interface Tax for Flash-based SSDs. - Matias Bjørling; Abutalib Aghayev; Hans Holmberg; Aravind Ramesh; Damien Le Moal; Gregory R. Ganger; George Amvrosiadis (USENIX ATC, 2021)

Metastable Failures in the Wild. - Lexiang Huang; Matthew Magnusson; Abishek Bangalore Muralikrishna; Salman Estyak; Rebecca Isaacs; Abutalib Aghayev; Timothy Zhu; Aleksey Charapko (OSDI, 2022)

The Cost of Garbage Collection for State Machine Replication. - Zhiying Liang; Vahab Jabrayilov; Aleksey Charapko; Abutalib Aghayev (CoRR, 2024)

MultiPaxos Made Complete. - Zhiying Liang; Vahab Jabrayilov; Aleksey Charapko; Abutalib Aghayev (CoRR, 2024)

CORD: Parallelizing Query Processing Across Multiple Computational Storage Devices. - Wahid Uz Zaman; Cyan Subhra Mishra; Saleh AlSaleh; Abutalib Aghayev; Mahmut Taylan Kandemir (IPDPS, 2025)

HoliPaxos: Towards More Predictable Performance in State Machine Replication. - Zhiying Liang; Vahab Jabrayilov; Abutalib Aghayev; Aleksey Charapko (Proc. VLDB Endow., 2025)