Distributed Computing Musings – Page 2 – Deep dive into distributed computing concepts

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Paper Notes: Windows Azure Storage – A Highly Available Cloud Storage Service with Strong Consistency

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February 8, 2024

Windows Azure Storage(WAS) is a cloud-based storage system that supports durable storage of customer’s data. The underlying storage infrastructure provides…

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Paper Notes: Facebook’s Tectonic Filesystem – Efficiency from Exascale

varunu28
January 15, 2024

As part of last two posts we have seen how Facebook created Haystack as their blob-storage solution & then further…

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Paper Notes: f4 – Facebook’s Warm Blob Storage System

varunu28
December 22, 2023

As part of the previous post, we saw how Facebook makes use of Haystack for object storage. But with increase…

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Paper Notes: Finding a needle in Haystack – Facebook’s photo storage

varunu28
December 17, 2023

Photo storage is one of the key functionalities of any social media platform & Facebook is no exception to this.…

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Implementing Viewstamped Replication protocol

varunu28
October 21, 2023

Viewstamped replication(VR) is a replication technique that takes care of failures when one or more nodes end up crashing in…

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Paper Notes: F1 – A Distributed SQL Database That Scales

varunu28
October 9, 2023

F1 is a distributed relational database built at Google to support AdWords domain at Google. It is built on top…

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Paper Notes: Spanner – Google’s Globally-Distributed Database

varunu28
September 27, 2023

Spanner is a scalable & globally distributed database built at Google. It is the first database to replicate data globally…

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Paper Notes: Kora – A Cloud-Native Event Streaming Platform For Kafka

varunu28
September 1, 2023

With growing demand for data, robust solutions for handling large-scale data streaming has become essential for organizations. In the cloud-native…

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Paper Notes: Megastore- Providing Scalable, Highly Available Storage for Interactive Services

varunu28
August 9, 2023

Megastore is a storage system built at Google that provides best of the both database worlds. It provides scalability of…

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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…