Code & Cluster

Introduction Multi version concurrency control (MVCC) is a popular optimistic technique used in modern databases for concurrency control. MV...

Overview Replication means making a copy of the data for future use in the case of failures or may be to scale. Why is it a big deal ? We co...

 Overview CockroachDb is a modern distributed database that promises linear scalability with strict serializability. Server side sharding i...

A globally distributed application is one where the services and data for the application are partitioned and replicated across multiple reg...

Modern software systems scale by partitioning the data and distributing data across several machines. Systems are made highly available by ...

Asynchronous messaging is an important component of any distributed application. Producers and consumers of messages are de-coupled. Produc...

In this previous blog on low latency I described 5 tips for building low latency applications. Read that for the first 5 tips. Here are 5 ...

This is an introduction to the Apache Cassandra data model. For the benefit of those not familiar with Cassandra,  it is an open source, h...