Sunday, October 18, 2020

System design: Why Distributed Systems Are Hard

 Here is the link. 

Denise Yu covers a brief history of distributed computing, presents a survey of key academic contributions to distributed systems theory including the CAP theorem and the FLP correctness result, and digs into why network partitions are inevitable today. Yu talks about why one needs to account for the human factor when designing a complex system.

Scale Horizontally

Shard, latency

Shared memory, send message to each other - a note on distributed computing - 1994 
Jim Waldo Geoff Wyant, A...

Paper worthy reading - Latency, memory access, partial failures, the hard parts! 

8 Fallacies - 

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