Introduction to NoSQL Databases
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...
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Introduction to Bitcoin Protocol
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 ...
Amazon Aurora DB Design Considerations
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 Postgr...
Frangipani - A Scalable Distributed FileSystem
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 p...
Properties of Distributed Transaction
Each programming language provides support of threading to improve performance of application by concurrently running multiple thread concurrently. However this can al...
Chain Replication
The majority of distributed systems rely on consensus algorithms for fault tolerance. There’s another simple approach to designing distributed systems through chain re...
Intro to Zookeeper
Apache Zookeeper provides highly reliable distributed co-ordination service. It helps maintain configuration information, synchronize distributed processes, and provid...
Testing Distributed Systems for Linearizability
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-toleranc...
Fault-Tolerant Virtual Machines
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 c...
Distributed Filesystem Design
In the last week we’ve explored a distributed file system, Google File System (GFS), where we’ve got an overview of how the chunks are managed from a master node and d...
