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Consistent Hashing

Consistent Hashing

Consistent hashing idea was introduced in paper Consistent Hashing and Random Trees: Distributed Caching Protocols for Relieving Hot Spots…
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Long Polling vs WebSockets vs Server-Sent Events

Long Polling vs WebSockets vs Server-Sent Events

Web applications were originally designed as a simple client-server model where the web client initiates an HTTP request requesting some…
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Key Characteristics of Distributed Systems

Key Characteristics of Distributed Systems

A distributed system is a system in which components are located on different networked computers, which can communicate and coordinate…
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Bloom Filter : A Probabilistic Data Structure

Bloom Filter : A Probabilistic Data Structure

Bloom filter is a probabilistic data structure invented by Burton Howard Bloom in 1970. It allows for membership check in constant space…
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CAP Theorem

CAP Theorem

CAP theorem also known as Brewer’s theorem was introduced by computer scientist Eric Brewer at Symposium on Principles of Distributed…
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What is API Gateway?

What is API Gateway?

In microservices architecture, there are several services running each designed for a very specific component of the system. When clients…
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Database Sharding

Database Sharding

Database sharding is the process of splitting up a database across multiple machines to improve the scalability of an application. In…
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SQL vs NoSQL Databases

SQL vs NoSQL Databases

SQL Database is also known as a relational database. It has the following properties.
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Load Balancing and Load Balancer

Load Balancing and Load Balancer

Load Balancing
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What is proxy server?

What is proxy server?

Word “proxy” defines, someone or something acting on behalf of something else. In computer science proxy means one server acting on behalf…
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What is Caching ?

What is Caching ?

Caching is the process of storing data in the cache. The cache is a temporary storage area relatively small in size with faster access…
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Eventual Consistency vs Strong Consistency

Eventual Consistency vs Strong Consistency

Eventual Consistency
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Event Driven Architecture

Event Driven Architecture

The event-driven architecture pattern is a popular distributed asynchronous architecture pattern used to produce highly scalable…
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MapReduce Overview

MapReduce Overview

In this blog, I will be discussing MapReduce programming model and how it works. This blog is based on the original MapReduce research…
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Microservices and its benefits

Microservices and its benefits

Microservices are small, focused on doing one thing well and autonomous services that work together. Microservices were not invented. They…
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