Sharding (also known as Data Partitioning) is the process of splitting a large dataset into many small partitions which are placed on different machines. Each partition is known as a “shard”.
Each shard has …
Read MoreDistributed systems will face network partitioning at some point in their life cycle. When network partitioning happens, CAP theorem dictates that if you pick availability, you cannot have true(strong) consistency, but you can still provide “eventual …
Read MoreLoad 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 …
Read MoreCAP Theorem has become the holy grail of distributed system design in recent years. CAP theorem states that any distributed computer system can support only any two among consistency, availability, and partition tolerance.
Let’s explore the …
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After I graduated college with a BS in Electrical Engineering, I thought that was the last time I was going to program in “C”. I could not have been more wrong. Throughout various points in my career, I’ve encountered and …
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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 …
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