So why am I writing this post?
Is it because I think NoSQL solutions are inferior to RDBMS solutions? Certainly not !
Is it because I'm fixated on the SQL way of doing things and don't want to dive into
Distributed systems will face network partitioning at some point
Load balancing is one of the founding pillars of designing distributed systems. A load balancer simply distributes a set of requested operations (database write requests, cache queries) effectively across a set of servers.
Here’s an example …
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Consistent hashing is one of the techniques used to bake in scalability into the storage architecture of your system from grounds up.
In a distributed system, consistent hashing helps in solving the following scenarios: