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 ...
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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...
CAP Theorem
CAP Theorem is an interesting theorem proposed by Eric Brewer, which states that any distributed system can provide only two of the following three guarantees: Cons...
HTTP Cookies
HTTP Cookies are small pieces of information generated by the web server to store them on the user’s browser. The browser then in turn sends the cookies for each reque...
Scaling on Queued Messages
Queue-based systems are one of the most prominent ways of propagating events and notifications. Due to the widespread usage, the majority of the cloud service provider...
Designing Distributed Systems - Batch Computational Patterns
In the last couple of blog posts, we’ve explored patterns of distributed systems, and the majority of those pattern works on top of long-running server applications. I...
Designing Distributed Systems - Ownership Election
In the last couple of blog posts, we’ve explored serving patterns, where distributing requests in terms of requests per second, or the data size getting loaded, or the...
Designing Distributed Systems - Scatter-gather & FaaS with event-driven pattern
In the last blog post, we have discussed two of the major patterns for designing distributed systems. The replicated load-balanced pattern scales the system in terms o...
Designing Distributed Systems - Replicated & Sharded Patterns
In the last blog post, we discussed about the generic patterns used to create co-scheduled containers. However, that is only a small portion in designing distributed s...
