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Killer Apps of Message Queues
Message queues are an asynchronous inter-process communication protocol that gains much of its glory with the recent hypes in microservices. Senders and receivers do not interact with the middleware at...
A Primer on Secure Communication Channels
In the world of internet, sending messages in clear text is like swimming naked. We would love some secure communication channels free from eavesdropping or tampering. Security as such is...
Dependency Update and Artifacts Promotion in Multi-repo Project
We all know Google employs a version tracking system that uses a single repository/depot. Every close-source google product that you love is tracked by this single repo, which is so...
Session Consistency in Replicated Frontend Servers
HTTP provides an abstraction of short connections. Unlike the continuous byte streams in TCP, exchanges between client and server over HTTP starts with a client request and ends with server...
Pagination Ordered by Secondary Keys on Sharded Stores
A common design for content display, pagination partitions information into multiple pages and serves one at a time. We have seen it in search results, message history, and cascading news...
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