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How does your computer know what time it is and why will it break your distributed systems?

Something that has always amused me is how does a computer know what time it is even when it is not connected to an internet.…

Posted on March 12, 2023March 12, 2023
  • Distributed Systems Theory

Paper Notes: Amazon Aurora – Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases

Amazon Aurora is an AWS service for relational database. As part of this paper, we will look into the decisions that led to a scalable…

Posted on February 26, 2023
  • Database
  • Technical Papers

Paper Notes: Bitcask – A Log-Structured Hash Table for Fast Key/Value Data

As part of this post, I will cover the research paper for Bitcask and do a code walkthrough of an implementation that I wrote using…

Posted on January 23, 2023January 23, 2023
  • Database
  • Technical Papers

Paper Notes: SWIM(Scalable Weakly-consistent Infection-style Process Group Membership Protocol)

In any distributed system comprising of multiple nodes, one question that we need to answer time and again is which nodes in our system are…

Posted on January 7, 2023January 7, 2023
  • Technical Papers

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