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Paper Notes: The Google File System
Google file system(GFS) is a foundational paper in the domain of distributed storage. Built at Google, GFS is a scalable…
Author: varunu28
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Paper Notes: Firestore – The NoSQL Serverless Database for the Application Developer
In the world of application development, most of the computation is performed on the edge. Though for certain use cases…
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Vector Clocks: So what time is it?
In last 2 posts, we have seen how time is a hard thing to calculate in a distributed systems and…
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Lamport Logical Clock: One after the another. But not together.
“Using a clock to model causality is like using a banana to model a nuclear reactor.” – Leslie Lamport As…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Materialized Views: An alternative to full-blown cache systems
Whenever we talk about caching in an application, the first thought that come to our mind is building an end…
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Testing for concurrency on JVM
Writing thread-safe code is in itself a major challenge and add to that the challenge of verifying if the code…