Distributed Computing Musings – Page 4 – Deep dive into distributed computing concepts

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How does your computer know what time it is and why will it break your distributed systems?

Something that has always amused me is how does a computer know what time it is even when it is…

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Amazon Aurora is an AWS service for relational database. As part of this paper, we will look into the decisions…

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As part of this post, I will cover the research paper for Bitcask and do a code walkthrough of an…

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In any distributed system comprising of multiple nodes, one question that we need to answer time and again is which…

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Whenever we talk about caching in an application, the first thought that come to our mind is building an end…

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Writing thread-safe code is in itself a major challenge and add to that the challenge of verifying if the code…

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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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An application like Uber might seem simple in the first look but does a great job of hiding complexity in…

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One of the common challenges of large-scale systems is maintaining the correct ordering and state of resources which are getting…

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