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I am excited to announce that the first edition of my book about distributed systems is finally complete! First things first, I have…
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…
At scale, any failure that can happen will eventually happen. Hardware failures, software crashes, memory leaks - you name it. The more…
I have released a new chapter of Understanding Distributed Systems ! It explores the different patterns at your disposal when designing…
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