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...
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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...
Introduction to Google File System
Google File System (GFS) is one of the first attempt to create a distributed file system built with fault tolerance in mind. The file system is expected to run on top ...
Introduction to Map-Reduce
MapReduce is a programming model designed to process large amounts of data distributed across thousands of systems. The issues related to distributed computing like ho...
Golang Roughwork I for RPC and Concurrency
RPC RPC Server: package main import ( "fmt" "log" "net" "net/http" "net/rpc" "time" ) type Args struct{} type TimeServer int64 func (t *TimeServer) GiveServ...
