All essays · 15

Why adding a server shouldn't ruin your entire cache.

Three ways to keep copies of your data, and the trade-offs of each.

A look at one of the most interesting engineering decisions behind one of the largest single-primary PostgreSQL deployments in the world.

New here? This is the best way to read the blog.

Why most systems live between CP and AP and how to choose where yours belongs.

How DynamoDB, Cassandra, and DNS stay available during network failures—and how they clean up the mess afterward.

Let's look at what CP systems actually do under the hood when they choose consistency over availability.

Let's get to the bottom of what Consistency, Availability, and Partition Tolerance actually mean in production distributed systems.

In this post I'll provide software developers with what I think is necessary information regarding cryptography and security.

Bringing computing closer to data sources and ultimately the customer.

Today we'll be implementing Merkle Trees. This is building upon the last post.

Today we're going to take a in-depth look at Merkle Trees, a fundamental data structure in the field of cryptography and an exhaustively used one in the context of blockchain and distributed systems.

For this weeks post we'll be taking a deep dive in to computer networks. Specifically the OSI and TCP/IP stacks and how it relates to modern networking.

An inside look at what it's like working at Amazon, more specifically Amazon Web Services.

Hopefully the irony of the initial blog post being Hello, World hits everyone in the face.