2024 – Distributed Computing Musings

Distributed Computing Musings

Deep dive into distributed computing concepts

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Microservices

MicroBits: Monoliths, Mess, Microservices – The Dunder Mifflin Strategy for Breaking Up the Big One

varunu28
August 22, 2024

Microservices usually come into architecture discussion when you are facing challenges with the existing infrastructure (in most cases a monolith).…

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Microservices

MicroBits: Coupling – Hidden ties that bind together

varunu28
August 14, 2024

Coupling is a concept discussed in various domains of software engineering. We all know that tight coupling is bad &…

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Technical Papers

Paper Notes: High Performance I/O For Large Scale Deep Learning

varunu28
February 17, 2024

Deep learning(DL) models have different access requirements from the data store when compared to typical workloads for which existing storage…

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Paper Notes: Windows Azure Storage – A Highly Available Cloud Storage Service with Strong Consistency

varunu28
February 8, 2024

Windows Azure Storage(WAS) is a cloud-based storage system that supports durable storage of customer’s data. The underlying storage infrastructure provides…

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Technical Papers

Paper Notes: Facebook’s Tectonic Filesystem – Efficiency from Exascale

varunu28
January 15, 2024

As part of last two posts we have seen how Facebook created Haystack as their blob-storage solution & then further…