Many Nodes, One Distributed System

A friendly introduction to distributed computing and the nature of…

Scalability: Growing a System in Different Directions

Ordering Distributed Events

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

Scalability Problems: Hidden Challenges of Growing a System

Redundancy and Replication: Duplicating in a Distributed System

Logical Time and Lamport Clocks (Part 2)

Throughout the course of this series, we’ve been learning time and again that distributed…

Logical Time and Lamport Clocks (Part 1)

Over the course of this series, we’ve seen many instances of how things can more…

Modes of Failure (Part 1)

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

Transparency: Illusions of a Single System (Part 1)

Fantastic Faults and What to Call Them

When we started off learning about distributed systems, we knew that this topic in…