redlock: unsafe at any timetl;dr redlock is ok for advisory locks but not for guaranteeing mutual exclusiona few days ago martin kleppmann (whose book designing data-intensive applications is excellent and well worth your time and money if you have any interest in distributed…
Scalable Web Architecture and Distributed SystemsIntroductionRecently I started to read a book called: The Architecture Of Open Source Systems. Overall I am really enjoying this book. It talks about a lot of different open source systems and the brains…
REST as an approach to explicit and adaptive handling of CAP issues in protocol designPrompted by:Eric Brewer on CAP and its implications. Note the part on protocols vs APIs.
Logging with Docker — Part 1IntroductionLogging is a central piece to almost every application. It is one of those things you want to keep around specially when things go wrong. Much and more have been say and done on this particular subject, however, today I want to…
Backstage at SoundwaveWhile our editor’s choice Android app and multi-featured iOS app are the faces of Soundwave, there is a lot going on…
A new framework for Distributed Ledgers or dare I say Consensus Computers (CC)Robert Sams inspired this post. As we were discussing stacks (software, IT) and the draw backs of the bitcoin blockchain architecture recently in London, we slowly gravitated towards a new term…
Capital Markets: Some Innovation, Some DisruptionI espouse the maximalist view that distributed ledger technology has the potential to lay the foundations for drastically new capital markets systems. No asset class and no workflow or processes will be immune. I grant you it will take a very…
