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Dependency Update and Artifacts Promotion in Multi-repo Project

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...

13 Aug 2017
Session Consistency in Replicated Frontend Servers

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...

02 Jul 2017
Pagination Ordered by Secondary Keys on Sharded Stores

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...

23 Apr 2017
Kip’s Warehouse: Building Scalable, Reliable, Consistent Web Application from the Ground Up

Kip’s Warehouse: Building Scalable, Reliable, Consistent Web Application from the Ground Up

I have been working with another three wonderful people on the senior design project, which is a web application of an inventory management system, and the production is up at...

25 Feb 2017
Git as Version Vector

Git as Version Vector

Git is one of the most widely used version control systems. Traditionally, a repository on git is considered as a complete history of the entire project in the form of...

22 Dec 2016
Sloppy Quorum And Eventual Consistency

Sloppy Quorum And Eventual Consistency

Here is where we stand. Fisher-Lynch-Patterson has shown that consensus is not guaranteed in bounded time in a purely asynchronous network. The CAP theorem shows that from consistency, availability, and...

18 Nov 2016