December 2021 – Distributed Computing Musings

Deep dive into distributed computing concepts

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Replication: Handling node failure

Failure is the norm in distributed systems. It’s a question of when and not if. These failures can be due…

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In case of a leader-follower system for replication, a typical flow looks like as following: Leader accepts all update operations…

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As long as we are dealing with a system where our database lives on a server which never fails and…

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This is third part of a series of posts about distributed consensus. I plan to cover distributed consensus in detail…

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This is second part of a series of posts about distributed consensus. I plan to cover distributed consensus in detail…

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This is first part of a series of posts about distributed consensus. I plan to cover distributed consensus in detail…

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What is the most common solution you have heard for scaling a system with high number of read request for…