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timilearning.com
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| | | | | My notes from Chapter 8 of Martin Kleppmann's 'Designing Data-Intensive Applications' book. | |
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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... | |
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nurkiewicz.com
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| | | | | Clocks are important to computers. Computers need to order events in a way understandable to humans. Every computer has a bunch of internal counters, like CPU ticks. But they only work within one machine. We need a way to have a reliable, global clock, that is synchronized between many computers. Why, exactly? Well, imagine you are selling tickets to The Rolling Stones concert. They sometimes sell within a few seconds. First come, first served. But who was first, if selling happens asynchronously in mult... | |
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stribny.name
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| | | A list of things that we can do when we need to scale a SQL database. | ||
