Area 13 · 7 topics
Distributed Systems
Networks partition, clocks drift, messages duplicate. The ideas that let systems stay correct anyway.
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Deep-dive readyIdempotency & Retries
Exactly-once is a lie; idempotency keys are the truth.
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02
Deep-dive readyMessage Queues & Streams
Kafka vs RabbitMQ, ordering, consumer groups.
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03
Deep-dive readySagas & Distributed Transactions
2PC vs compensations.
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04
Deep-dive readyRate Limiting
Token bucket, leaky bucket, sliding windows.
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05
Deep-dive readyTime, Clocks & Ordering
Lamport clocks, vector clocks, hybrid logical clocks.
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06
Deep-dive readyCAP & PACELC
The real trade-off is latency vs consistency.
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07
Deep-dive readyConsensus & Raft
Leader election and log replication, animated.
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