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Retroscoping Zookeeper Staleness
ZooKeeper is a popular coordination service used as part of many large scale distributed systems. ZooKeeper provides a file-system inspired abstraction to the users on top of its replicated key-value store. Like other Paxos-inspired protocols, ZooKeeper is typically deployed on at least 3 nodes, and can tolerate F node failure for a cluster of size…
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Why Government IT is Expensive and Archaic
Disclaimer: I do not work for the government, and my rant below is based on my very limited exposure to how IT works at the US government setting. Why Government IT is Expensive and Archaic? I think, this can be a very long discussion, but I do have a quick answer: standards imposed by government…
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My name is Aleksey Charapko, I am a computer science student at the University at Buffalo. In this blog I will try to write on mostly technical topics that I am interested in.
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