AWS Glue is one of the major offerings of AWS, where AWS provides support to run ETL (Extract-Transform-Load) jobs reliably. The main objective of AWS Glue is to support different query processors ...

Databases are one of the most used components of any web service. It’s safe to say that all the web services serve the requests by processing the data fetched from the databases, and by storing the...

Bitcoin is one of the most popular cryptocurrencies. However, we’re more interested in Bitcoin, as it’s one of the first peer-to-peer electronic cash systems proposed without the use of any trusted...

In this blogpost we would discuss about the design considerations taken for Amazon Aurora DB, a fully-managed scalable relational DB service on top of MySQL and Postgres compatible engine. We would...

Frangipani is one of the intial attempts to create a scalable distributed file-system. This was primarily designed for the earlier generation of computers, which was primarily used on time-sharing ...

Each programming language provides support of threading to improve performance of application by concurrently running multiple thread concurrently. However this can also result in incorrect results...

The majority of distributed systems rely on consensus algorithms for fault tolerance. There’s another simple approach to designing distributed systems through chain replication, which supports high...

Apache Zookeeper provides highly reliable distributed co-ordination service. It helps maintain configuration information, synchronize distributed processes, and provide group membership services. T...

Designing a distributed system poses a significant challenge, as need to keep track of a lot of constraints including but not restricted to consistency, fault-tolerance, and performance expectation...

While designing large scale systems, we would need to take care of disaster scenarios as well, so that in case one of the primary server goes down, the bakcup server can take it’s place. The disast...