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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.…
Year: 2022
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Paper Notes: Kafka – a Distributed Messaging System for Log Processing
Kafka was developed at LinkedIn for collecting & delivering high volume of log data with low latency. The paper dives…
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Paper Notes: Scaling Memcache at Facebook
As part of this post we will be looking into the paper Scaling memcache at Facebook and try to understand…
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Transactions: Serializable Snapshot Isolation
Working with various isolation levels, we have seen a compromise being done between getting things correct and getting things fast.…
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Transactions: Two-phase Locking
Two-phase locking(2PL for short) is one of the most well-known algorithm for serializability. Note that it is totally different concept…
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Transactions: Introduction to serializability techniques
So far we have seen various problems that arise with concurrent transactions and how different approaches try to tackle them(and…
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Transactions: Write skew & why we need serialization?
Up until now we have seen various problems that can arise due to concurrent request for both read as well…