What is Eventual Consistency?
Distributed systems will face network partitioning at some point
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System Design Interview Concepts – Load Balancing
What is Load Balancing?
Load balancing is one of the founding pillars of designing distributed systems. A load balancer simply distributes a set of requested operations (database write requests, cache queries) effectively across a set of servers.
Here’s an example …
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35 things I learnt at Game Developer Conference (GDC) 2018
This was the first time I visited Game Developer Conference (GDC 2018). I’ve been working in the game cloud services and analytics space for almost 3 years now and most of our work has been for Microsoft’s AAA game titles
System Design Interview Concepts – Consistent Hashing
Consistent hashing is one of the techniques used to bake in scalability into the storage architecture of your system from grounds up.
In a distributed system, consistent hashing helps in solving the following scenarios:
- To provide elastic scaling (a term