varunu28 – Page 4 – Distributed Computing Musings

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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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In last 2 posts, we have seen how time is a hard thing to calculate in a distributed systems and…

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“Using a clock to model causality is like using a banana to model a nuclear reactor.” – Leslie Lamport As…

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Something that has always amused me is how does a computer know what time it is even when it is…

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Amazon Aurora is an AWS service for relational database. As part of this paper, we will look into the decisions…

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As part of this post, I will cover the research paper for Bitcask and do a code walkthrough of an…

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In any distributed system comprising of multiple nodes, one question that we need to answer time and again is which…

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Whenever we talk about caching in an application, the first thought that come to our mind is building an end…

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Writing thread-safe code is in itself a major challenge and add to that the challenge of verifying if the code…

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Bigtable is a distributed storage solution developed at Google for storing structured data in a scalable manner. Multiple products(At the…