Clocks in distributed systems
Posted: September 29, 2021 #distributedClocks and time are ubiquitous on computers. However, on a distributed system with multiple nodes, things get tricky: time on different nodes might be out of sync. Possible causes include (but not limited to) not perfectly accurate hardware and network delays while trying to sync time. Some degr...
Replication in distributed databases
Posted: September 20, 2021 #database #distributedI’ve been recently been reading Designing Data-Intensive Applications, a treasure to learn more about distributed systems. In this post, I will discuss about replication issues while designing/using a distributed databases. While this post by no means is meant to be exhaustive, we will touch upon...