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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

Recent Posts

  • How does your computer know what time it is and why will it break your distributed systems?
  • Paper Notes: Amazon Aurora – Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases
  • Paper Notes: Bitcask – A Log-Structured Hash Table for Fast Key/Value Data
  • Paper Notes: SWIM(Scalable Weakly-consistent Infection-style Process Group Membership Protocol)
  • Materialized Views: An alternative to full-blown cache systems

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