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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...
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...
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...
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...
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