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Srikant Viswanath in Architectural Tapas

Jun 8, 2020

Single Leader Replication — a quick overview

In the modern web app scene, we have heard of replication of data over and over…

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Jun 20, 2020

Single leader replication — Node Outages

In this post we will look at some of the high level options of dealing with node outages in a single leader replication database setup.

Any database node could go down unexpectedly due to fault or a scheduled maintenance. We wouldn’t…

Srikant Viswanath in Architectural Tapas

Jun 21, 2020

Consensus in Distributed systems: An overview

Consensus is one of the most important and fundamental problems in the distributed systems that seems deceptively simple.

In this post we will take a look at what it is and what are the criteria for a solution.

Srikant Viswanath in Architectural Tapas

Jun 7, 2020

Queues behind the scenes

Fundamental options available for queuing at scale whilst comparing with…

Srikant Viswanath in Architectural Tapas

Jun 8, 2020

Single leader replication: Setting up followers

Checkout this quick overview of replication.

Ok, so you have database setup with one leader and couple of followers using semi-synchronous replication. Looks like you have your business growing and you want to handle all…

Srikant Viswanath in Architectural Tapas

Jun 6, 2020

Software architecture — Scaling 10000' view

Scale in 3 dimensions

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