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"https://distributed-computing-musings.com/2023/07/paper-notes-the-google-file-system/", "published_at": "2023-07-05T13:04:17+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c523-c868-739e-bd7e-1a444231c59c", "title": "Paper Notes: Firestore – The NoSQL Serverless Database for the Application Developer", "url": "https://distributed-computing-musings.com/2023/05/firestore-the-nosql-serverless-database-for-the-application-developer/", "published_at": "2023-05-07T14:14:54+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c523-c868-739e-bd7e-1a444256789b", "title": "Vector Clocks: So what time is it?", "url": "https://distributed-computing-musings.com/2023/04/vector-clocks-so-what-time-is-it/", "published_at": "2023-04-16T21:38:21+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c523-c868-739e-bd7e-1a44432d6dc9", "title": "Lamport Logical Clock: One after the another. But not together.", "url": "https://distributed-computing-musings.com/2023/04/lamport-clock-one-after-the-another-but-not-together/", "published_at": "2023-04-07T14:40:30+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c523-c868-739e-bd7e-1a4444196760", "title": "How does your computer know what time it is and why will it break your distributed systems?", "url": "https://distributed-computing-musings.com/2023/03/how-does-your-computer-know-what-time-it-is-and-why-will-it-break-your-distributed-systems/", "published_at": "2023-03-12T17:52:18+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c523-c868-739e-bd7e-1a4444592b64", "title": "Paper Notes: Amazon Aurora – Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases", "url": "https://distributed-computing-musings.com/2023/02/paper-notes-amazon-aurora-design-considerations-for-high-throughput-cloud-native-relational-databases/", "published_at": "2023-02-26T02:02:42+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c523-c868-739e-bd7e-1a444552f07b", "title": "Paper Notes: Bitcask – A Log-Structured Hash Table for Fast Key/Value Data", "url": "https://distributed-computing-musings.com/2023/01/paper-notes-bitcask-a-log-structured-hash-table-for-fast-key-value-data/", "published_at": "2023-01-23T15:16:17+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c523-c868-739e-bd7e-1a444604d1ef", "title": "Paper Notes: SWIM(Scalable Weakly-consistent Infection-style Process Group Membership Protocol)", "url": "https://distributed-computing-musings.com/2023/01/paper-notes-swimscalable-weakly-consistent-infection-style-process-group-membership-protocol/", "published_at": "2023-01-07T19:30:50+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c523-c868-739e-bd7e-1a4446ee2158", "title": "Materialized Views: An alternative to full-blown cache systems", "url": "https://distributed-computing-musings.com/2022/11/materialized-views-an-alternative-to-full-blown-cache-systems/", "published_at": "2022-11-22T16:25:09+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c523-c868-739e-bd7e-1a4446eed4e5", "title": "Testing for concurrency on JVM", "url": 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"id": "01a0c54b-f9a2-7261-9b25-84ecda14f639", "title": "Thundering Herd/Cache Stampede", "url": "https://distributed-computing-musings.com/2021/12/thundering-herd-cache-stampede/", "published_at": "2021-12-05T15:36:56+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2026

Cloud Bits: Bulkhead Pattern – Isolate Failures and Sinkproof Your Servicesoriginal ↗
19 Jun 2026
Cloud Bits: Dancing Through Failures – Saga Pattern for Resilient Microservicesoriginal ↗
2 Jun 2026
Cloud Bits: Breaking the Double Write – A Guide to Distributed Data Consistencyoriginal ↗
2 May 2026
Cloud Bits: Bounded by contractoriginal ↗
25 Jan 2026

2025

Cloud Bits: Beyond Pings – Checks for Cloud-Native Reliabilityoriginal ↗
25 Dec 2025
Thundering Herd Problem: Preventing the Stampedeoriginal ↗
24 Aug 2025
Cloud Bits: Circuit Breakers – The First Line of Defense in Cloud-Native Resilienceoriginal ↗
12 Aug 2025
Cloud Bits: API Gateways – Cloud System’s Reception Deskoriginal ↗
12 Jun 2025
Cloud Bits: The Compass of Microservices- Navigating Service Discoveryoriginal ↗
3 May 2025
Cloud Bits: Decouple Configuration from Codeoriginal ↗
8 Mar 2025
Observability: Following the Breadcrumbs – A Journey Through Distributed Tracingoriginal ↗
8 Feb 2025
Observability: OpenTelemetry – Decoupled by designoriginal ↗
1 Feb 2025
Observability: Unlocking the Power of Monitoringoriginal ↗
26 Jan 2025
Observability: A Primeroriginal ↗
19 Jan 2025

2024

MicroBits: Monoliths, Mess, Microservices – The Dunder Mifflin Strategy for Breaking Up the Big Oneoriginal ↗
22 Aug 2024
MicroBits: Coupling – Hidden ties that bind togetheroriginal ↗
14 Aug 2024
Paper Notes: High Performance I/O For Large Scale Deep Learningoriginal ↗
17 Feb 2024
Paper Notes: Windows Azure Storage – A Highly Available Cloud Storage Service with Strong Consistencyoriginal ↗
8 Feb 2024
Paper Notes: Facebook’s Tectonic Filesystem – Efficiency from Exascaleoriginal ↗
15 Jan 2024

2023

Paper Notes: f4 – Facebook’s Warm Blob Storage Systemoriginal ↗
22 Dec 2023
Paper Notes: Finding a needle in Haystack – Facebook’s photo storageoriginal ↗
17 Dec 2023
Implementing Viewstamped Replication protocoloriginal ↗
21 Oct 2023
Paper Notes: F1 – A Distributed SQL Database That Scalesoriginal ↗
9 Oct 2023
Paper Notes: Spanner – Google’s Globally-Distributed Databaseoriginal ↗
27 Sept 2023
Paper Notes: Kora – A Cloud-Native Event Streaming Platform For Kafkaoriginal ↗
1 Sept 2023
Paper Notes: Megastore- Providing Scalable, Highly Available Storage for Interactive Servicesoriginal ↗
9 Aug 2023
Paper Notes: Spark – Cluster Computing with Working Setsoriginal ↗
17 Jul 2023
Paper Notes: Distributed Transactions at Scale in Amazon DynamoDBoriginal ↗
14 Jul 2023
Paper Notes: MapReduce – Simplified Data Processing on Large Clustersoriginal ↗
11 Jul 2023
Paper Notes: The Google File Systemoriginal ↗
5 Jul 2023
Paper Notes: Firestore – The NoSQL Serverless Database for the Application Developeroriginal ↗
7 May 2023
Vector Clocks: So what time is it?original ↗
16 Apr 2023
Lamport Logical Clock: One after the another. But not together.original ↗
7 Apr 2023
How does your computer know what time it is and why will it break your distributed systems?original ↗
12 Mar 2023
Paper Notes: Amazon Aurora – Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databasesoriginal ↗
26 Feb 2023
Paper Notes: Bitcask – A Log-Structured Hash Table for Fast Key/Value Dataoriginal ↗
23 Jan 2023
Paper Notes: SWIM(Scalable Weakly-consistent Infection-style Process Group Membership Protocol)original ↗
7 Jan 2023

2022

Materialized Views: An alternative to full-blown cache systemsoriginal ↗
22 Nov 2022
Testing for concurrency on JVMoriginal ↗
1 Nov 2022
Paper Notes: Bigtable – A Distributed Storage System for Structured Dataoriginal ↗
6 Sept 2022
Paper Notes: Real-time Data Infrastructure at Uberoriginal ↗
15 Aug 2022
Event Sourcing: Removing UD from CRUDoriginal ↗
4 Aug 2022
Paper Notes: Amazon DynamoDB – A Scalable, Predictably Performant, and Fully Managed NoSQL Database Serviceoriginal ↗
22 Jul 2022
Paper Notes: WiscKey – Separating Keys from Values in SSD-conscious Storageoriginal ↗
13 Jul 2022
LSM Tree: Data structure powering write heavy storage enginesoriginal ↗
5 Jul 2022
Paper Notes: Zookeeper – Wait-free coordination for Internet-scale systemsoriginal ↗
24 Jun 2022
Paper Notes: Dynamo – Amazon’s Highly Available Key-value Storeoriginal ↗
31 May 2022
Sloppy Quorum and Hinted handoff: Quorum in the times of failureoriginal ↗
22 May 2022
Vector Clocks: Keeping time in checkoriginal ↗
1 May 2022
Implementing Raft consensus algorithm in Gooriginal ↗
21 Mar 2022
Paper Notes: Cassandra- A Decentralized Structured Storage Systemoriginal ↗
14 Mar 2022
Paper Notes: Kafka – a Distributed Messaging System for Log Processingoriginal ↗
9 Mar 2022
Paper Notes: Scaling Memcache at Facebookoriginal ↗
5 Mar 2022
Transactions: Serializable Snapshot Isolationoriginal ↗
16 Feb 2022
Transactions: Two-phase Lockingoriginal ↗
11 Feb 2022
Transactions: Introduction to serializability techniquesoriginal ↗
9 Feb 2022
Transactions: Write skew & why we need serialization?original ↗
7 Feb 2022
Transactions: Tackling lost updatesoriginal ↗
4 Feb 2022
Transactions: Snapshot Isolationoriginal ↗
3 Feb 2022
Transactions: Read committed isolationoriginal ↗
31 Jan 2022
Transactions: Atomicity & Isolationoriginal ↗
28 Jan 2022
Transactions: Why we need all or nothing?original ↗
25 Jan 2022
Partitioning: Handling secondary indexes in partitionsoriginal ↗
23 Jan 2022
Partitioning: Consistent Hashingoriginal ↗
21 Jan 2022
Partitioning: Approaches to partitioningoriginal ↗
19 Jan 2022
Partitioning: Introduction to partitioningoriginal ↗
17 Jan 2022
Replication: Handling Concurrent Writesoriginal ↗
15 Jan 2022
Replication: Maintaining a Quorumoriginal ↗
11 Jan 2022
Replication: Introducing leaderless replicationoriginal ↗
10 Jan 2022
Replication: Conflict resolution in multi-leader replicationoriginal ↗
9 Jan 2022
Replication: Can we have more than one leader?original ↗
7 Jan 2022
Replication: Issues with replication lagoriginal ↗
6 Jan 2022
Replication: Synchronous vs Asynchronous replicationoriginal ↗
4 Jan 2022

2021

Replication: Handling node failureoriginal ↗
29 Dec 2021
Replication: Challenges in onboarding a new followeroriginal ↗
28 Dec 2021
An introduction to replicationoriginal ↗
21 Dec 2021
Distributed Consensus: How to deal with disagreement?original ↗
17 Dec 2021
Distributed Consensus: How to decide what everyone agrees on?original ↗
14 Dec 2021
Distributed Consensus: Why do we need everyone to agree?original ↗
9 Dec 2021
Thundering Herd/Cache Stampedeoriginal ↗
5 Dec 2021