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Disclaimer: This blog has been written with the help of LLM. This chapter was pessimistic in its approach, but that’s alright, one has to be paranoid when they are building systems. When you are a small company and shipping fast you don’t think about...
Disclaimer: This blog has been partially written by the help of LLM. The more I read DDIA the more my trust on databases is vanishing. :’) This chapter on transactions was not that interesting, honestly. Most of it was just how the keywords in ACID a...
Cool, so how do you replicate huuuuuge databases? Well, you don’t. You partition them and then replicate. So we are just adding additional complexity to an already complex system? Oh, Yes. It will be fun. Partitioning is important for efficiently sca...
Welcome back folks. We are going to continue from where we left off in the last blog. We discussed Replication Logs, so now we are going to dive into the Problems with Replication Logs. Problems with Replication Logs Let's say you have a read heavy s...
Why replicate db data? keep data close to customer (improve latency) high availability increased read throughput Leaders and followers - who are they? Leaders - well, the name suggests the meaning, all writes to the leader node Followers - wel...
The fourth chapter, the last chapter of part 1 of the DDIA book. Lessgo! What does software do? It propagates the transfer of data, well, it is too simple of an explanation, there are logical layers in between to make the data go to the right place i...
