Aggregating My Distributed Self | CSS-Tricks

Miriam Suzanne’s in the middle of a redesign of her personal website. It began in August 2022. She’s made an entire series out of the work that’s worth your time, but I wanted to call out the fifth and latest...

September 27, 2024

Concurrency Issues in SQL and Distributed Systems – DZone

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Concurrency Issues in SQL and Distributed Systems – DZone

An SQL database must handle multiple incoming connections simultaneously to maintain optimal system performance. The expectation is that the database can accept and process numerous requests in parallel. It’s straightforward when different requests target separate data, such as one request...

September 26, 2024

Design Secure Architecture for Distributed Systems – DZone

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Design Secure Architecture for Distributed Systems – DZone

Securing distributed systems is a complex challenge due to the diversity and scale of components involved. With multiple services interacting across potentially unsecured networks, the risk of unauthorized access and data breaches increases significantly. This article explores a practical approach...

September 12, 2024

Mastering Distributed Caching on AWS – DZone

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Mastering Distributed Caching on AWS – DZone

Distributed caching is a method for storing and managing data across multiple servers, ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and improved read/write performance. In cloud environments like AWS (Amazon Web Services), distributed caching is pivotal in enhancing application performance by reducing...

July 3, 2024

On Implementation of Distributed Protocols

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On Implementation of Distributed Protocols

This post concludes the first phase of the state-of-the-art exploration in the scope of milestone M0.1 of the Replica_IO project, namely exploration of selected notable distributed protocol implementations. It shares the main conclusions drawn from exploring 14 different code bases...

April 5, 2024

Managing Concurrent Database Writes in a Distributed System with Redis or PostgreSQL

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Managing Concurrent Database Writes in a Distributed System with Redis or PostgreSQL

Scaling applications often leads to distributing workloads across multiple machines, introducing complexities surrounding shared mutable state and concurrent writes. Two prominent choices emerge in this realm: Redis and PostgreSQL. Both offer distinct strengths and weaknesses depending on specific use cases....

March 23, 2024

Prioritizing Concurrent Requests: Queuing system to handle distributed processes and messages with NodeJS and Bull

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Prioritizing Concurrent Requests: Queuing system to handle distributed processes and messages with NodeJS and Bull

Hey devs! How’s it going? My name is Vitor Braggion, I’m the Co-Founder and responsible for the technology at ufrilla. A while ago, we had a little technical issue. For those who don’t know, ufrilla is a startup that connects...

March 16, 2024

AthenaDB: Distributed Vector Database Powered by Cloudflare

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AthenaDB: Distributed Vector Database Powered by Cloudflare

What is AthenaDB? AthenaDB is a serverless vector database designed to be highly distributed and easily accessible as an API. It leverages Cloudflare’s Workers AI platform to create the vectors, Cloudflare Vectorize for handling vector querying, and Cloudflare D1 as...

February 19, 2024

Highlights of RisingWave v1.6: The Open-Source Distributed SQL Streaming Database

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Highlights of RisingWave v1.6: The Open-Source Distributed SQL Streaming Database

Happy 2024 RisingWave community! The new year brings the launch of RisingWave v1.6, which is filled with fixes, updates, and new features. There are some breaking changes included in this update, so please take note if you are currently running...

February 6, 2024

Best Practice: use the same datatypes for comparisons, like joins and foreign keys

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Best Practice: use the same datatypes for comparisons, like joins and foreign keys

It is essential to ensure that columns in two tables with referential integrity or joined together have the same data type. Even if there is an implicit casting and the performance appears good, some corner cases may cause issues. For...

February 2, 2024