What is a Distributed System ? According to Leslie Lamport: A system where I can’t get my work done because some computer which I never heard of crashed. According to Martin Kleppmann: A system running on several nodes and characterised by partial failures. What is Partial Failure ? Machine crashing Network failure Messages being dropped Software misbehaviour Part of the computation…

Introduction: Python is a great programming language but sometimes it can be a bit of slowcoach when it comes to performing certain tasks. That’s why developers have been building C/C++ extensions and integrating them with Python to speed up the performance. However, writing these extensions is a bit difficult because these…

Introduction: Snitch is a component which determines the network topology of the whole cassandra cluster. It provides the translation from the node’s IP address to the datacenter & rack it belongs to. This ensures that the data is placed in such a way that the cluster can handle rack/datacenter level outages. …

At StashAway, we have been running Docker containers from the very first day. Initially, we were using Rancher as the container orchestrator, but as we grew, we decided to switch to Kubernetes (k8s) — mainly because of its rapidly growing ecosystem and wide adoption. This post describes how we use…

On 3rd January, Google Project Zero Team disclosed about the two hardware vulnerabilities: Meltdown and Spectre. Whereas Meltdown is specific to Intel processors, Spectre affects almost all modern processors. As soon as they were disclosed, all of the cloud providers started working on patching the hypervisors with the fix. …