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Observability: A Primer
Imagine you are working on an issue in an existing feature. You started on Monday by reproducing the issue, you…
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MicroBits: Monoliths, Mess, Microservices – The Dunder Mifflin Strategy for Breaking Up the Big One
Microservices usually come into architecture discussion when you are facing challenges with the existing infrastructure (in most cases a monolith).…
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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 &…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Paper Notes: f4 – Facebook’s Warm Blob Storage System
As part of the previous post, we saw how Facebook makes use of Haystack for object storage. But with increase…
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Paper Notes: Finding a needle in Haystack – Facebook’s photo storage
Photo storage is one of the key functionalities of any social media platform & Facebook is no exception to this.…
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Implementing Viewstamped Replication protocol
Viewstamped replication(VR) is a replication technique that takes care of failures when one or more nodes end up crashing in…
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Paper Notes: F1 – A Distributed SQL Database That Scales
F1 is a distributed relational database built at Google to support AdWords domain at Google. It is built on top…