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The promises and realities of the relational database model
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The promises and realities of the relational database model

The relational model is one of the oldest surviving models in computer science but it has some drawbacks that need to be addressed.

Shlomi Noach
Pitfalls of isolation levels in distributed databases
Engineering

Pitfalls of isolation levels in distributed databases

The more loosely coupled components are in a distributed system the better it scales

Sugu Sougoumarane
Consensus algorithms at scale: Part 3 - Use cases
Engineering

Consensus algorithms at scale: Part 3 - Use cases

Consensus Use Cases

Sugu Sougoumarane
Orchestrator failure detection and recovery: New Beginnings
Engineering

Orchestrator failure detection and recovery: New Beginnings

How the new integration adds new failure detection and recovery scenarios making orchestrator’s operation goal-oriented.

Shlomi Noach
Consensus algorithms at scale: Part 2 - Rules of consensus
Engineering

Consensus algorithms at scale: Part 2 - Rules of consensus

The Rules of Consensus

Sugu Sougoumarane
Consensus algorithms at scale: Part 1 - Introduction
Engineering

Consensus algorithms at scale: Part 1 - Introduction

This is a multi-part blog series and will be updated with links to the corresponding posts.

Sugu Sougoumarane
Learn Horizontal Scaling on PlanetScaleDB with Vitess — Rate Puppies in a Rust app with Sharded MySQL Database
Engineering

Learn Horizontal Scaling on PlanetScaleDB with Vitess — Rate Puppies in a Rust app with Sharded MySQL Database

Rate Puppies in a Rust app with Sharded MySQL Database

Jiten Vaidya
ACID Transactions are not just for banks — the Vitess approach
Engineering

ACID Transactions are not just for banks — the Vitess approach

Build systems that do not lose data. Vitess prevents asynchronous failure in two ways: (1) ensuring that the changes are saved locally on storage with the redo log and binary logs safely written to disk and (2) making use of semi-synchronous replication.

Jiten Vaidya