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Paper Notes: Spark – Cluster Computing with Working Sets

  • varunu28
  • July 17, 2023
In one of the previous posts, we looked into how MapReduce is used to perform large scale computations on large-scale…
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Paper Notes: Distributed Transactions at Scale in Amazon DynamoDB

  • varunu28
  • July 14, 2023
NoSQL databases come up with lot of good things such as high-availability, high-scalability and cloud-scale performance. But providing transaction support…
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Paper Notes: MapReduce – Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters

  • varunu28
  • July 11, 2023
MapReduce is another paradigm-shift similar to Google file system in the domain of distributed computing. It is a programming model…
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Paper Notes: The Google File System

  • varunu28
  • July 5, 2023
Google file system(GFS) is a foundational paper in the domain of distributed storage. Built at Google, GFS is a scalable…
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Paper Notes: Firestore – The NoSQL Serverless Database for the Application Developer

  • varunu28
  • May 7, 2023
In the world of application development, most of the computation is performed on the edge. Though for certain use cases…
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Paper Notes: Amazon Aurora – Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases

  • varunu28
  • February 26, 2023
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

  • varunu28
  • January 23, 2023
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)

  • varunu28
  • January 7, 2023
In any distributed system comprising of multiple nodes, one question that we need to answer time and again is which…
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Paper Notes: Bigtable – A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data

  • varunu28
  • September 6, 2022
Bigtable is a distributed storage solution developed at Google for storing structured data in a scalable manner. Multiple products(At the…
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Paper Notes: Real-time Data Infrastructure at Uber

  • varunu28
  • August 15, 2022
An application like Uber might seem simple in the first look but does a great job of hiding complexity in…

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