#consistency (22)

13 blogs • 7 notes • 2 videos

2026

(10)

Aug 26

NOTE How S3 Enables Stateless Write-Ahead Logs Despite Latency Trade-offs

Distributed Systems #distributed-systems #caching #commit-latency
Aug 21

BLOG Slop Debt

Career Growth #career-growth #consistency #devops-and-testing
Jun 27

NOTE RocksDB's Sequence Numbers Simplify Database Snapshots and Concurrency

Distributed Systems #distributed-systems #compaction #concurrency
May 21

NOTE Key Considerations for Building Predictably Horizontally Scalable Systems

Distributed Systems #distributed-systems #asynchronous-queues #caching
Apr 13

NOTE Correctness and Consistency are Different Things

Distributed Systems #distributed-systems #consistency #correctness
Apr 11

NOTE It Depends Must Be Followed By Explanation

Career Growth #distributed-systems #consistency #databases
Apr 08

NOTE Partially Synchronous Systems Achieve Balance in Distributed Systems

Distributed Systems #distributed-systems #asynchronous-systems #consistency
Apr 04

NOTE Consistency, Availability, Freshness Trade-offs in Real-time Systems

Distributed Systems #distributed-systems #availability #cap-theorem
Mar 17

VIDEO How Stripe Achieves Zero-Downtime, Consistent Data Migrations at Scale

Distributed Systems #data-migration #zero-downtime #schema-evolution
Jan 27

BLOG Multi-Paxos - Consensus in Distributed Databases

Distributed Systems #distributed-systems #clock-synchronization #consensus

2025

(3)

Dec 23

BLOG Clock Synchronization Is a Nightmare

Distributed Systems #distributed-systems #clock-synchronization #consistency
Oct 20

BLOG How Writes Work in Apache Cassandra

Distributed Systems #distributed-systems #consistency #databases
Sep 03

BLOG Why Eventual Consistency is Preferred in Distributed Systems

Distributed Systems #distributed-systems #consistency #networking

2023

(1)

Oct 15

VIDEO CAP Theorem: First Principles, the '2 of 3' Myth, and How Google Spanner Approaches It

Distributed Systems #distributed-systems #cap-theorem #cloud-spanner

2022

(1)

Jan 16

BLOG Leaderless Replication

Distributed Systems #distributed-systems #consistency #databases

2021

(6)

2020

(1)

May 31

BLOG The RUM Conjecture - Storage System Trade-offs

Distributed Systems #distributed-systems #consistency #cryptography