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How Distributed Systems Avoid Race Conditions using Pessimistic Locking?
Understanding Pessimistic Locks, Leases, and Fence Tokens in Distributed Systems
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Sidharth

August 2024

How to Solve Producer Consumer Problem with Backpressure?
Understanding the Need for Flow Control in Distributed Systems
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Sidharth
How to Invalidate and Evict Data from Cache?
Understanding Different Cache Invalidation and Eviction Strategies
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How Databases Avoid Data Loss with Write-Ahead Logs?
Understanding Database Failure Handling Using Write-Ahead Logs
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How to Handle Sudden Bursts of Traffic or "Thundering Herd Problem"?
Techniques to Avoid Potential Failures Caused by Sudden Traffic Spikes
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How Load Balancers Distribute Traffic?
Understanding Different Types of Load Balancing Algorithms
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Sidharth

July 2024

How is Data Replicated in Distributed Systems?
Understanding Single Leader, Multi-Leader, and Leaderless Replication
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Consistency Models in Distributed Systems
Understanding How Data is Replicated With Strict & Eventual Consistency in Distributed Systems
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Mistaken Beliefs about Distributed Systems
Simplifying the Fallacies of Distributed Systems
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Understanding CAP Theorem for Distributed Systems
The Relation between Consistency, Availability, & Partition Tolerance in Distributed Systems
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June 2024

Logical Clocks and Clock Synchronization in Distributed Systems
As software engineers, when building products using state of the art cloud technologies such as message brokers, queues, etc., we often overlook a very…
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Why Distributed Transactions can be slow?
Discussing the cause of Latency for Transactions in Distributed Systems
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