In my last article, we looked at how to capture libcurl traffic in Fiddler. Another equally popular http transport stack is the CPP REST SDK, a.k.a., Casablanca.
We’ve used Casablanca widely across Microsoft on Windows and Xbox. A …
Read MoreOne of the engineers on my team stopped by today with an interesting problem. He was switching the http network stack in our SDK from casablanca to libcurl and needed to see the traffic in Fiddler for debugging.
However, when …
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So why am I writing this post?
Is it because I think NoSQL solutions are inferior to RDBMS solutions? Certainly not !
Is it because I’m fixated on the SQL way of doing things and don’t want to dive into …
Read MoreSharding (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 …
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