But as with any distributed system, tradeoffs exist. Blob storage is slower. However, it is still within 100ms for most of the small payloads, which can work for most of the systems.

Regardless of whether an accounting system is single- or double-entry, manual or computerized, accounting procedures should display the same characteristics, including a series of related internal ...

The cost of underestimating security and compliance translates to catastrophic risks. Unfortunately, despite the growing complexity of modern distributed systems, many organizations still treat these ...

As someone who has spent the better part of two decades optimizing distributed systems—from early MapReduce clusters to modern microservices architectures—I’ve watched the AI boom with growing concern ...

The last fundamental pillar of distributed systems is ensuring that it’s safe to retry calls. If the first two pillars focus on what the clients need to do to make the systems safer, the last ...