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You are here		loonytek.com What is the difference between scaling horizontally vs scaling vertically? How can this affect the design decisions that are made? - Loonytek - Delving into Tech
\|	\|	tomaugspurger.net Gone Rafting \| Tom's Blog Last week, I was fortunate to attend Dave Beazley's Rafting Trip course. The pretext of the course is to implement the Raft Consensus Algorithm. I'll post more about Raft, and the journey of implementing, it later. But in brief, Raft is an algorithm that lets a cluster of machines work together to reliably do something. If you had a service that needed to stay up (and stay consistent), even if some of the machines in the cluster went down, then you might want to use Raft.	3.7 parsecs Travel
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\|	\|	aphyr.com Jepsen: On the perils of network partitions [AI summary] This technical blog post series introduces the concepts of distributed consensus and network partitions using the CAP theorem, while providing a tutorial on setting up a node cluster to experiment with database behavior during failures.	4.2 parsecs Travel
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\|	\|	tweedegolf.nl Tweede golf For the last couple of months we at Tweede golf have been working on implementing a Network Time Protocol (NTP) client and server in Rust. The project is a Prossimo initiative and is supported b ...	6.3 parsecs Travel
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\|	\|	blog.carlosgaldino.com A brief overview of the Raft algorithm \| carlosgaldino Writings on Computer Science and software engineering by Carlos Galdino.	5.8 parsecs Travel
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