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Vector Clocks: Keeping time in check

“Lost time is never found again.” – Benjamin Franklin. The above quote is true to its core in context of distributed systems. If you miss…

Posted on May 1, 2022May 11, 2022
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Partitioning: Handling secondary indexes in partitions

Up until now we have discussed partitioning in a system where we are able to store a record in a partition and retrieve from the…

Posted on January 23, 2022January 23, 2022
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Partitioning: Consistent Hashing

While ending our discussion on various approaches to partitioning, we saw how the typical hashing approaches fail when we encounter a node failure or when…

Posted on January 21, 2022January 21, 2022
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Partitioning: Approaches to partitioning

Before diving into approaches to partition a database, let us clear up one thing in aspect of partition and its relationship with replication. Partitioning &…

Posted on January 19, 2022
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Partitioning: Introduction to partitioning

Until now we have seen how replication helps in scaling a read-intensive workload. We keep one or more nodes as leaders that handle write traffic…

Posted on January 17, 2022January 17, 2022
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