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Articles tagged with #distributed-systems
Big data processing is all about a set of tools that help you process data in a distributed fashion. When one machine is not capable of processing a huge amount of data, we do divide and conquer. That
Consistent hashing is one of the most popular algorithms in distributed systems. It helps you answer one question: Who owns this data? That's it. Data ownership. Nothing else. TL;DR Consistent hashin
Your server crashes. That's annoying, but manageable. Spin up another one, route traffic there. API servers are typically stateless. Losing one is like losing a waiter at a restaurant: inconvenient, b
Your database gets overwhelmed. Response times spike. Connections pile up. Timeouts start. One slow service drags down another. Then another. Within minutes, your entire system is on its knees. This i
