The choice of concurrency architecture has a significant impact on the design and performance of multi-threaded software in general, and distributed software in particular. No single concurrency…
Building a reliable application in the cloud is different than building a reliable application in an enterprise setting. While historically you might have purchased higher-end hardware to scale up, in…
Leader Election is a vital and fundamental problem in distributed systems and in any communication network. Distributed Systems is a collection of heterogeneous systems that interact with each other…
The software industry has been writing distributed systems for several decades. In 1969, the U.S. Department of Defense created ARPANET, the precursor to today’s internet. Around the same time, the…