Producers
Events get into Kafka through a producer — a client that appends messages to a…
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Partitioning & File Layout
Columnar format (Lesson 4) decides how much of each row a query reads; file…
Partitioning and Consistent Hashing
A team I knew ran their session cache on four Redis servers. The client library…
Scaling Postgres + Capstone: Debugging a Slow Database
We’ve reached the last lesson. We started with pages and tuples and worked up…
Scaling Writes
In the previous lesson, reads scaled by making copies: a cache, a replica, a CDN…
Scaling Writes — Sharding, Write-Ahead Logs & Partitioning
Scaling reads is straightforward — add caches, replicas, CDN. Scaling writes is…
Deep Dive on Consistent Hashing
Every distributed system eventually faces the same problem: you have N servers…