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| | henrikwarne.com
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| | What a great book Designing Data-Intensive Applications is! It covers databases and distributed systems in clear language, great detail and without any fluff. I particularly like that the author Martin Kleppmann knows the theory very well, but also seems to have a lot of practical experience of the types of systems he describes. There is...
| | www.openlife.cc
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| | This is just a "note to self" or cheatsheet... I'm working on the new distributed consensus algorithm about to appear in Cassandra 5.0. I see that I frequently lose momentum when I have to resort to the formal definition of the algorithm. Because I was never good at reading mathematical notation with a lot of greek letters... So, let's translate the greek letters to English words:
| | martin.kleppmann.com
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| | [AI summary] The Redlock algorithm, proposed for distributed locking, is critiqued for its reliance on timing assumptions and lack of fencing tokens, making it unsafe for correctness-critical applications. The article advocates for consensus algorithms like Raft or Paxos instead, emphasizing the importance of robustness in distributed systems.
| | benjamincongdon.me
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| Learning Raft by making one.