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A review of the 1994 paper 'Distributed Reset' by Arora and Gouda, explaining a protocol for resetting all nodes in a distributed system to a common state.
A tutorial on implementing loosely coupled messaging between services using Azure Service Bus queues and the .NET SDK.
An overview of Apache Kafka, explaining its core concepts as a distributed event streaming platform for real-time data pipelines.
Announcing IdempotentAPI v2.0.0-RC, an open-source .NET library for adding idempotency to APIs, now with support for distributed cluster environments.
A tutorial on building a minimal distributed key-value database using Hashicorp's Raft library in Go, with a single-file example.
Explores challenges of running Kafka Connect on Kubernetes and proposes a vision for a more Kubernetes-native architecture.
Explores challenges of running Kafka Connect on Kubernetes and proposes a vision for a more Kubernetes-native architecture.
The article discusses the shift from traditional debugging methods like printf to modern observability tools and structured event systems for distributed applications.
An analysis of different ID types in distributed systems, comparing transparent vs. opaque identifiers and their tradeoffs.
Demystifying eventual consistency in DynamoDB, explaining its trade-offs and how to handle it effectively in applications.
A guide to understanding the CAP theorem in distributed systems, explaining when it applies and its implications for consistency and availability.
Explores the three different meanings of 'consistency' in databases: from the CAP Theorem, ACID properties, and database consistency models.
An analysis of current challenges and future trends in micro-frontends architecture, covering client, server, and edge implementations.
A guide introducing gRPC for API development, comparing it to REST, GraphQL, and other protocols, and outlining a hands-on tutorial series.
Announcing the 1.0.0 Release Candidate for IdempotentAPI, a .NET library for building fault-tolerant, idempotent Web APIs in distributed systems.
An analysis of Twitter's most severe cache-related incidents from 2012-2022, exploring patterns and knowledge loss.
A discussion of common pitfalls in measuring tail latency metrics in distributed systems, using examples from Twitter's infrastructure.
Explores strategies for handling Kafka producer failures, focusing on trade-offs between consistency and availability in messaging systems.
Explores strategies for handling Kafka message delivery failures in applications, discussing trade-offs between consistency and availability.
