Technical Papers – Page 3 – Distributed Computing Musings

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Paper Notes: Amazon DynamoDB – A Scalable, Predictably Performant, and Fully Managed NoSQL Database Service

Sometime back, I wrote a post on Dynamo which is Amazon’s key-value store. This paper is not about that. This…

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During the last post about LSM trees, we discussed how awesome they are for write-heavy storage engines. But we also…

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In a distributed computing environment, servers often need to work with certain shared set of attributes such as locks, system…

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Dynamo is one of the most influential papers in the domain of distributed storage technologies. It has inspired multiple open…

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Cassandra is a distributed storage system that focusses on providing a highly scalable & available service for storing very large…

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Kafka was developed at LinkedIn for collecting & delivering high volume of log data with low latency. The paper dives…

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As part of this post we will be looking into the paper Scaling memcache at Facebook and try to understand…