Something that has always amused me is how does a computer know what time it is even when it is not connected to an internet.…
Paper Notes: Amazon Aurora – Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases
Amazon Aurora is an AWS service for relational database. As part of this paper, we will look into the decisions that led to a scalable…
Paper Notes: Bitcask – A Log-Structured Hash Table for Fast Key/Value Data
As part of this post, I will cover the research paper for Bitcask and do a code walkthrough of an implementation that I wrote using…
Paper Notes: SWIM(Scalable Weakly-consistent Infection-style Process Group Membership Protocol)
In any distributed system comprising of multiple nodes, one question that we need to answer time and again is which nodes in our system are…
Materialized Views: An alternative to full-blown cache systems
Whenever we talk about caching in an application, the first thought that come to our mind is building an end to end caching mechanism. This…
Testing for concurrency on JVM
Writing thread-safe code is in itself a major challenge and add to that the challenge of verifying if the code we have written is actually…
Paper Notes: Bigtable – A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data
Bigtable is a distributed storage solution developed at Google for storing structured data in a scalable manner. Multiple products(At the time the paper was written)…
Paper Notes: Real-time Data Infrastructure at Uber
An application like Uber might seem simple in the first look but does a great job of hiding complexity in order to provide a great…
Event Sourcing: Removing UD from CRUD
One of the common challenges of large-scale systems is maintaining the correct ordering and state of resources which are getting manipulated by client requests. Something…
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 paper was presented at a…