Distributed Systems

Deep dives into the core concepts of distributed systems.

• The CAP Theorem

  Understanding Consistency, Availability, and Partition Tolerance.

• Consistent Hashing

  How data is distributed across a cluster with minimal reshuffling.

• Gossip Protocol

  How nodes in a distributed system share state and detect failures.

• LSM Trees

  Log-Structured Merge-Trees: The storage engine behind Cassandra and others.

• Raft Consensus

  Understandable distributed consensus.