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Pavel Bukhmatov

Pavel Bukhmatov

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Distilling old and new research about distributed systems, databases and operating systems. Also occasionally yelling at the cloud.

Paper review: Scaling Memcache at Facebook

Jul 18, 20224 min read

Overview Memcached is a general-purpose in-memory key-value store. While most users can benefit from the generic caching capabilities of Memcached,...

Paper review: Scaling Memcache at Facebook

How databases recover data. ARIES algorithm

Apr 11, 202225 min read

Hi everyone! Most of you have probably heard of an acronym ACID which is a property of a transactional system e.g. database meaning it can provide A...

How databases recover data. ARIES algorithm

All the Types of Scalability

Feb 17, 20227 min read

"Horizontal" and "vertical" is only part of the story · Horizontal, vertical... is that it? You've probably heard something about scalability already....

All the Types of Scalability

The foundation behind deadlocks

Feb 6, 20226 min read

What are deadlocks and how to fight them · What are deadlocks "Deadlock" is a word we hear quite a lot as programmers, but what are they? How are they...

The foundation behind deadlocks