Distilling old and new research about distributed systems, databases and operating systems. Also occasionally yelling at the cloud.
Overview Memcached is a general-purpose in-memory key-value store. While most users can benefit from the generic caching capabilities of Memcached, some companies, e.g. Facebook (now: Meta), need to push it to the limit. This is a paper review of "Sc...
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 — Atomicity, C — Consistency, I — Isolation and D — Durability... But how does it work exactly? Thi...
"Horizontal" and "vertical" is only part of the story
What are deadlocks and how to fight them
