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Paper Notes: Zookeeper – Wait-free coordination for Internet-scale systems

In a distributed computing environment, servers often need to work with certain shared set of attributes such as locks, system configurations etc. In order to…

Posted on June 24, 2022June 24, 2022
  • Technical Papers

Paper Notes: Dynamo – Amazon’s Highly Available Key-value Store

Dynamo is one of the most influential papers in the domain of distributed storage technologies. It has inspired multiple open source databases such as Cassandra,…

Posted on May 31, 2022May 31, 2022
  • Technical Papers

Sloppy Quorum and Hinted handoff: Quorum in the times of failure

As part of a blog post in the past, we discussed how Quorums play a huge part in multi-node system. In order to revisit the…

Posted on May 22, 2022
  • Consensus

Vector Clocks: Keeping time in check

“Lost time is never found again.” – Benjamin Franklin. The above quote is true to its core in context of distributed systems. If you miss…

Posted on May 1, 2022May 11, 2022
  • Partitioning

Implementing Raft consensus algorithm in Go

As part of my next post, I was looking to review the paper for Raft consensus algorithm. But this is one paper which I found…

Posted on March 21, 2022March 21, 2022
  • Consensus

Paper Notes: Cassandra- A Decentralized Structured Storage System

Cassandra is a distributed storage system that focusses on providing a highly scalable & available service for storing very large amount of data. As part…

Posted on March 14, 2022March 14, 2022
  • Database
  • Technical Papers

Paper Notes: Kafka – a Distributed Messaging System for Log Processing

Kafka was developed at LinkedIn for collecting & delivering high volume of log data with low latency. The paper dives into the design of Kafka…

Posted on March 9, 2022March 9, 2022
  • Technical Papers

Paper Notes: Scaling Memcache at Facebook

As part of this post we will be looking into the paper Scaling memcache at Facebook and try to understand the challenges Facebook faced while…

Posted on March 5, 2022
  • Technical Papers

Transactions: Serializable Snapshot Isolation

Working with various isolation levels, we have seen a compromise being done between getting things correct and getting things fast. It feels like being stuck…

Posted on February 16, 2022February 16, 2022
  • Database
  • Transaction

Transactions: Two-phase Locking

Two-phase locking(2PL for short) is one of the most well-known algorithm for serializability. Note that it is totally different concept from two-phase commit even though…

Posted on February 11, 2022February 11, 2022
  • Database
  • Transaction

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