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. ...
Serverless technologies provide a fast and independent way for developers to get implementations into production. This technique is becoming every day more popular in the enterprises' stack, and it has been featured as a trial technique in the ThoughtWorks technology radar since 2017. ...