Articles
Flyweights - Complexities with Variable Length Fields and Nulls
Different approaches as seen in Simple Binary Encoding, Cap'n Proto and database engines
Failure Detection in Cloud Hosted Trading Systems
An overview of complexities and recommendations for failure detection in cloud hosted trading systems
Why Kafka's Latency Is so High
And how Aeron avoids this
Chain Replication, Craq & Hermes
Highly available cluster coordination with high throughput and strong consistency guarantees
Primary-Backup Replication
A popular technique to give fail-stop fault tolerance to a replicated state machine
State Transfer with Merkle Trees
Efficient DirectBuffer state transfer with Viewstamped Replication's recovery protocol
Eider Retrospective
Lessons learnt building Eider, and some considerations for a version 2
Producer Backpressure in Messaging Systems
A survey of various messaging systems, and how they deal with fast producers/slow consumers
Kafka Vs. Aeron
Two similar, yet very different approaches to log replication
Gateway Distribution
Retaining high performance in an Aeron Cluster when dealing with large amounts of clients
Resilient Gateways
Adding resilience to Aeron Cluster Gateways
How to See the Aurora in Iceland
Things to do to get the best chance to see and photograph the Aurora in Iceland
Photographing Iceland
Recommendations on planning a trip, and the gear to take with on a photographic tour of Iceland.
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