2022 – Distributed Computing Musings

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Materialized Views: An alternative to full-blown cache systems

Whenever we talk about caching in an application, the first thought that come to our mind is building an end…

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Writing thread-safe code is in itself a major challenge and add to that the challenge of verifying if the code…

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Bigtable is a distributed storage solution developed at Google for storing structured data in a scalable manner. Multiple products(At the…

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An application like Uber might seem simple in the first look but does a great job of hiding complexity in…

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One of the common challenges of large-scale systems is maintaining the correct ordering and state of resources which are getting…

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Sometime back, I wrote a post on Dynamo which is Amazon’s key-value store. This paper is not about that. This…

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During the last post about LSM trees, we discussed how awesome they are for write-heavy storage engines. But we also…

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A database system is built by gluing together multiple pieces of technology. One such piece is a storage engine which…

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

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Dynamo is one of the most influential papers in the domain of distributed storage technologies. It has inspired multiple open…