Over the course of this series, we’ve seen many instances of how things can more complicated than they seem. We saw this with failure, and…

One of the hardest things about distributed systems is that we often find ourselves needing to approach them very differently than other…

We often spend a lot of our lives blissfully unaware of how something works. Most of the time, this ends up being an okay thing, since we…

When it comes to tech jargon, one thing seems to always hold true: everyone has a different opinion about what certain words mean. I…

When it comes to programming, there are certain conventions, idioms, and principles that we run into and reference as a community quite…

So much of what makes distributed systems hard to content with is the fact that, as a system grows, it changes. Furthermore, the things…

So much of computing is based on assumptions. We design systems operating on a set of assumptions. We write programs and applications…

As we’ve learned more and more about distributed systems, we’ve seen the many ways that things can wrong. More specifically, we’ve seen…

The more that one delves into the world of failure, the more obvious it becomes that so many different parts of a distributed system can…

When we talk about things going wrong, often the first question we want to answer is how exactly they went wrong. This is especially true…

When we started off learning about distributed systems, we knew that this topic in particular can be a little hard. And in the beginning of…

When most people talk about distributed systems, they can make certain assumptions about how the system functions. For example, we usually…

Almost all systems will undergo some kind of growth spurt during the course of their lives, and every successful system will likely have…

So far, this series has been focused around the techniques and concepts behind distributing a system. We’ve also explored how to go about…

Many conversations about distributed systems arise because everyone is talking about one topic in particular: size. When people talk about…

This post is the second installment in a two-part series on distribution transparency. Read Part 1 here!

Even though we might be new to distributed systems, by now we can see that, by definition, they involve many moving parts. Those moving…

A friendly introduction to distributed computing and the nature of nodes within a distributed system.