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Event Sourcing: Removing UD from CRUD

One of the common challenges of large-scale systems is maintaining the correct ordering and state of resources which are getting manipulated by client requests. Something…

Posted on August 4, 2022August 4, 2022
  • Patterns

Paper Notes: Amazon DynamoDB – A Scalable, Predictably Performant, and Fully Managed NoSQL Database Service

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

Posted on July 22, 2022July 22, 2022
  • Database
  • Technical Papers

Paper Notes: WiscKey – Separating Keys from Values in SSD-conscious Storage

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

Posted on July 13, 2022July 13, 2022
  • Database
  • Technical Papers

LSM Tree: Data structure powering write heavy storage engines

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

Posted on July 5, 2022July 6, 2022
  • Database

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

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