Distributed systems encourage you to break apart data and services. This means you’ve to think about data ownership in a distributed system more deeply as compared to a traditional system. The common advice tends to proclaim that a service should own its data and that anyone wanting to access the Read more…
System Design has its own language. And just like with any language, it requires a specific terminology for people to communicate ideas with each other. This is where knowledge of core concepts of System Design becomes extremely useful. In this post, I will walkthrough the concepts and explain what they Read more…
Statement-based replication is a form of database replication. In this post, I’m going to explain how it works, its advantages, and its limitations. Understanding Statement-Based Replication Let’s say you are going for leader-based replication and there are multiple followers under a single leader node. With statement-based replication, two things will Read more…
Data is the backbone of every organization out there. Ensuring that your data is always available is probably the most important consideration for any business. If the application’s data is not available when customers need it, chances are that they won’t be your customer much longer. This is where Database Read more…
Distributed systems are all the rage these days. However, building and operating distributed systems is hard in the best of times. To top it up, we often end up making things even more difficult by ignoring the key challenges associated with distributed systems. In today’s post, we are going to Read more…
