This article builds upon the previous one from this series and delves into the optimizations outlined in the "What a programmer can do" section of the "What every programmer should know about memory" paper by Ulrich Drepper. The code example is implemented in Rust ...
This post highlights the main concepts useful to software engineers, presented in the preparatory part of the "What every programmer should know about memory" paper. The 2nd part of this series provides some Rust examples to explore how to write memory-optimized code ...
I published the post "A practical approach to read-write quorum systems" a few months ago. The post refers to the paper: Read-Write Quorum Systems Made Practical, and it goes through a concrete implementation of the tool called "Quoracle". I have decided to rewrite the tool in Golang to explore ...
Quorum systems allow consistency of replicated data; every time a group of servers needs to agree on something, a quorum is involved in the decisions. An example could be the leaderless databases, such as Dynamo. Read-write quorums define two configurable values, R and W. ...
Partial failure is an aspect of distributed systems; the asynchronous nature of the processes and the network infrastructure makes fault detection a complex topic. Failure detectors usually provide a way to identify and handle failures ...
The quality testing of large data-sets plays an essential role in the reliability of data-intensive applications. The business decisions of companies rely on machine learning models; for this reason, data quality has gained a lot of importance. ...