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I was recently looking at a managed Kafka service and came across services like AWS MSK and Kafka on Confluent Cloud. While comparing these services, I saw that there were limitations on the number of partitions allowed in a cluster...
Monarch is a planet-scale in-memory time series database developed by Google. It is mainly used by as a reliable monitoring system by most of Google’s internal systems like Spanner, BigTable, Colossus, BlobStore...
What is virtual time and why do we need it. As distributed systems have progressed and been adopted over the last decade, there have been numerous technologies in different segments like databases, caches, message queues, etc which are built on top of other frameworks which abstract away the difficulty of managing distributed systems...
I was exploring Neo4j and came upon this [video](https://www. youtube...
Suppose we have a C lib where we have defined various data structures and methods. Due to some reason or constraint, there needs to be a Golang process which has to reuse the structures mentioned in the C lib...
I had worked on Elasticsearch back in 2015, when it was more known for its text searching capabilities using inverted indexes. As I looked to pick it up again last year for another project, I saw that Elasticsearch had added core support for other data types from text like numbers, IP addresses, geospatial data types, etc...
I recently heard about Maglev, the load balancer that Google uses in front of most of its services. I wanted to get a short gist on the matter to understand the reason why Google had to create its own load balancer and the optimizations that they took in order to actually run a load balancer at Google’s scale...
Kubernetes is the de-facto container management system for all sorts of distributed workloads. Known for its extensibility and community support, there are numerous plugins for multiple use cases...
This post will cover a concise implementation of how to open live pcap sessions on any network device and reading the incoming packets on that interface. In the end, the post will display how to parse the packets appropriately to get the required information...
Most full-fledged web frameworks come with ORMs built in. ORMs or Object Relational Mappings help to map the programming language data structures to actual data stores without having to worry about the underlying data source...