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Paper Notes: Cassandra- A Decentralized Structured Storage System
Cassandra is a distributed storage system that focusses on providing a highly scalable & available service for storing very large…
Author: varunu28
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Paper Notes: Kafka – a Distributed Messaging System for Log Processing
Kafka was developed at LinkedIn for collecting & delivering high volume of log data with low latency. The paper dives…
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Paper Notes: Scaling Memcache at Facebook
As part of this post we will be looking into the paper Scaling memcache at Facebook and try to understand…
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Transactions: Serializable Snapshot Isolation
Working with various isolation levels, we have seen a compromise being done between getting things correct and getting things fast.…
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Transactions: Two-phase Locking
Two-phase locking(2PL for short) is one of the most well-known algorithm for serializability. Note that it is totally different concept…
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Transactions: Introduction to serializability techniques
So far we have seen various problems that arise with concurrent transactions and how different approaches try to tackle them(and…
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Transactions: Write skew & why we need serialization?
Up until now we have seen various problems that can arise due to concurrent request for both read as well…
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Transactions: Tackling lost updates
As part of read committed isolation and snapshot isolation, we primarily focussed on tactics to ensure correctness of reads in…
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Transactions: Snapshot Isolation
In our previous post we covered read committed isolation level. Read committed isolation level ensures that: We cannot perform reads…
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Transactions: Read committed isolation
Ensuring that each resource is accessed and modified by a single user at a time is very complex on the…