Showing posts with label architecture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label architecture. Show all posts
Sunday, October 5, 2025

Data Storage For Analytics And AI

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For a  small or medium sized company storing all the data in relational database like Postgresql or MySQL is sufficient.  Perhaps if analyti...
Saturday, March 1, 2025

Multi Version Concurrency Control (MVCC) in databases

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Introduction Multi version concurrency control (MVCC) is a popular optimistic technique used in modern databases for concurrency control. MV...
Saturday, July 20, 2024

Replication in modern data systems

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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...
Sunday, June 30, 2024

CockroachDb Review: Should I use CockroachDb ?

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 Overview CockroachDb is a modern distributed database that promises linear scalability with strict serializability. Server side sharding i...
Sunday, November 1, 2020

Building Globally Distributed Applications

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A globally distributed application is one where the services and data for the application are partitioned and replicated across multiple reg...
Saturday, July 26, 2014

Distributed Systems : Consensus Protocols

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Modern software systems scale by partitioning the data and distributing data across several machines. Systems are made highly available by ...
Friday, April 18, 2014

Apache Kafka Introduction : Should I use Kafka as a message broker ?

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Asynchronous messaging is an important component of any distributed application. Producers and consumers of messages are de-coupled. Produc...
Friday, March 28, 2014

10 Tips for building low latency applications

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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 ...