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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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tweedegolf.nl
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| | | | | 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 ... | |
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www.adamconrad.dev
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| | | | | Ch 8 of my book club review of Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann. | |
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philipotoole.com
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| | | rqliteis a lightweight, user-friendly, open-source, distributed relational database. It's written inGoand usesSQLiteas its storage engine. When it comes to distributed systems the CAP theorem is an essential concept. It states that it's impossible for a distributed database to simultaneously provide Consistency, Availability, and Partition tolerance. The challenge is in the face of a network partition,... | ||
