Microservices usually come into architecture discussion when you are facing challenges with the existing infrastructure (in most cases a monolith). It is rarely the case…
MicroBits: Coupling – Hidden ties that bind together
Coupling is a concept discussed in various domains of software engineering. We all know that tight coupling is bad & loose coupling is good. But…
Paper Notes: High Performance I/O For Large Scale Deep Learning
Deep learning(DL) models have different access requirements from the data store when compared to typical workloads for which existing storage systems are built. Also the…
Paper Notes: Windows Azure Storage – A Highly Available Cloud Storage Service with Strong Consistency
Windows Azure Storage(WAS) is a cloud-based storage system that supports durable storage of customer’s data. The underlying storage infrastructure provides support for storing data in…
Paper Notes: Facebook’s Tectonic Filesystem – Efficiency from Exascale
As part of last two posts we have seen how Facebook created Haystack as their blob-storage solution & then further improved it with a tiered-storage…