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Coordination is expensive as it reduces the availability and performance of distributed applications (PACELC theorem). I have extended…
I am excited to announce that the first edition of my book about distributed systems is finally complete! First things first, I have…
At scale, any failure that can happen will eventually happen. Hardware failures, software crashes, memory leaks - you name it. The more…
An application typically starts its life as a monolith. Take a modern backend of a single-page Javascript application, for example - it…
I have released a new chapter of Understanding Distributed Systems : Resiliency Patterns. The chapter is all about failures and their…
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Google's earnings miss looks a lot like Facebook's, and that's a credit to Google. The company is being more aggressive than they get credit for.
