Sriram R articles - 12 total
Vector Clocks
The main limitation of Lamport Clocks was that they were unable to assist us in determining the...
Lamport Clocks
We looked at Logical Time in the previous article and how it can help us reason about time in a...
The Notion of Logical Time
In the previous two articles, we learned about Physical Time and the nuances of time. We concluded...
Message Ordering
The order in which messages are processed determines the final outcome of the actions in any...
Physical Time
Physical Time Have you ever thought about how time works? How do your wall clocks and...
Failure Detectors
In distributed systems, it is crucial to understand failure and how to mitigate it in order to...
Exactly Once Processing
Multiple Deliveries of a Message Nodes in a distributed system talk to each other over a...
Byzantine Generals Problem
Up until now, we thought that none of the nodes could be malicious and try to do something other than...
Two Generals Problem
This is a thought experiment designed to help us understand a very basic problem in distributed...
Distributed System Models
System Models As we saw in the first part of this series, a distributed system is made up...
Fallacies of Distributed System
The fallacies of distributed computing are a list of false assumptions that architects and developers...
Introduction to Distributed Systems
What's a Distributed System? A distributed system is a system whose components are on...