varunu28 – Page 2 – Distributed Computing Musings

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Observability

Observability: Following the Breadcrumbs – A Journey Through Distributed Tracing

varunu28
February 8, 2025

“Observability is the lens through which the invisible becomes visible, turning complex systems into understandable narratives.“ So before taking a…

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Observability

Observability: OpenTelemetry – Decoupled by design

varunu28
February 1, 2025

In the last post, we explored how we can leverage tools such as Prometheus & Grafana for monitoring our applications.…

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Observability

Observability: Unlocking the Power of Monitoring

varunu28
January 26, 2025

In the last post, we touched upon the requirement for observability & understood the basic components that form the common…

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Observability

Observability: A Primer

varunu28
January 19, 2025

Imagine you are working on an issue in an existing feature. You started on Monday by reproducing the issue, you…

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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…

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Technical Papers

Paper Notes: f4 – Facebook’s Warm Blob Storage System

varunu28
December 22, 2023

As part of the previous post, we saw how Facebook makes use of Haystack for object storage. But with increase…