Alvaro Videla, distributed systems engineer and co-author of RabbitMQ in Action, reviewed distributed systems theory at QCon London 2017. This involved breaking distributed systems into different ...

Distributed file systems have emerged as dynamic and scalable storage solutions. We explore the architectures of three distributed file systems: Google File System (GFS), Tectonic, and JuiceFS.

For example, in Amazon, a high-traffic database can cost millions per year. With hundreds of distributed systems, these costs add up to hundreds of millions, making optimization crucial for long ...

All distributed systems must, by their very nature, make use of some form of concurrent programming – otherwise they wouldn’t be able to get anything done. At a very simple level, you could say that ...

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