Tag: design-distributed

All the articles with the tag "design-distributed".

• System Design - How Distributed Stream Processing Works (Apache Flink)

  16 Sep, 2026

  How distributed stream processing works: dataflow graphs, event time vs processing time, windowing, watermarks, state management, checkpointing, and exactly-once semantics — with source code walkthrough from Apache Flink.

• System Design - How Distributed File Systems Work (GFS/HDFS)

  16 Aug, 2026

  How distributed file systems work: the architecture of Google File System and Hadoop HDFS, chunk-based storage, metadata management, replication, read/write flows, and fault tolerance — with source code references.

• System Design - How etcd Works

  11 Aug, 2026

  How etcd works: Raft consensus, bbolt storage engine, MVCC revisions, watch mechanism, lease system, linearizable reads, and how Kubernetes depends on it.

• System Design - How Apache ZooKeeper Works

  23 Jul, 2026

  How Apache ZooKeeper works: the coordination service behind Kafka, Hadoop, and HBase. Covers ZAB consensus protocol, znodes, watches, ephemeral nodes, leader election, sessions, and a source code walkthrough from the apache/zookeeper repository.

• System Design - How Gossip Protocols Work

  24 Jun, 2026

  How gossip protocols propagate information across distributed systems: epidemic dissemination, SWIM failure detection, push/pull/push-pull strategies, convergence analysis, and real-world implementations in Cassandra, Consul, and Redis Cluster.

• System Design - How Merkle Trees Work

  12 Jun, 2026

  How Merkle trees work: hash tree structure, efficient data verification, applications in git, blockchains, distributed databases (Cassandra, DynamoDB), and certificate transparency.