Zookeeper
This post explore Zookeeper: Post, a service for coordinating processes of a distributed application with elements like group messaging, shared registers and...
2021
Zab
This post is about Zab (Zookeeper atomic broadcast) and will cover some relations with Paxos.
Chubby
This post is based on the paper The Chubby lock service for loosely-coupled distributed systems.
Paxos in Practice
Building upon the previous post on Paxos, this post explores the challenges in implementing Paxos through the Paxos Made Live paper.
Paxos
My understanding of the Paxos consensus protocol through the paper Paxos Made Simple. The Paxos lecture video by the creators of Raft is really helpful.
2020
Google File System
Summary of the paper: The Google File System
Distributed Systems - Books and Papers
A list of book and papers related to distributed systems that I have read and will read. For the ones I have read, there is a link to my summary/posts.
Distributed Systems, for fun and profit: Part 2
With the basics and idea of abstractions covered in the previous post, we move on to the fundamental topics of time, order and replication mentioned in the t...
Distributed Systems, for fun and profit: Part 1
This post is meant to summarize the text and to help me understand the complete picture. This text gives an excellent introduction to the world of distribute...