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Understanding Distributed Systems 1.1

Coordination is expensive as it reduces the availability and performance of distributed applications (PACELC theorem). I have extended…

over a year ago 31 votes
Testing and operating distributed systems

I am excited to announce that the first edition of my book about distributed systems is finally complete! First things first, I have…

over a year ago 22 votes
Leader election best practices

Sometimes a single process in a system needs to have special powers, like being the only one that can access a shared resource or assign…

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How distributed systems fail

At scale, any failure that can happen will eventually happen. Hardware failures, software crashes, memory leaks - you name it. The more…

over a year ago 23 votes
Scalability patterns of distributed systems

I have released a new chapter of Understanding Distributed Systems ! It explores the different patterns at your disposal when designing…

over a year ago 24 votes

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