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,…
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…
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…