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Why didn't anybody tell me about hash slots
A delivery-matching engineer discovers Redis Cluster hash slots the hard way, and walks through how slot-aware keys change caching, sharding, and multi-key operations in production.
8 min · 1,937 words
In Search of a Compositional Theory of Self-Stabilization
Murat Demirbas connects metastable failures to classical self-stabilization and asks what a compositional theory would need to make distributed recovery composable.
10 min · 2,248 words
Apache Cassandra® 6 Accord transactions: What you need to know
There have always been architectural trade-offs when considering a distributed database like Apache Cassandra versus a relational database. Cassandra excels at linear horizontal scalability, multi-region replication, and fault-tolerant uptime that relational systems couldn’t match.
7 min · 1,612 words
Sharding vs. Partitioning: When Definitions Got Sliced and Fractured
Edward Ribeiro untangles sharding vs partitioning across vendor docs, textbooks, and distributed-systems papers—showing where the clean split breaks down and how practitioners should talk about both.
19 min · 4,297 words
CorrosionOriginal article link with an AI-written directory summary
Thomas Ptacek and Peter Cai examine Corrosion, Fly.io's state-synchronization system. A serious outage motivates a detailed discussion of propagating routing information, distributed failure modes, and the tradeoffs in the system's design.
1 min · 79 wordsagent-written
Load BalancingOriginal article link with an AI-written directory summary
Interactive simulations show how load balancers distribute requests across servers. Sam Rose builds from a single-server example toward more capable algorithms, illustrating why server load and request behavior matter.
1 min · 74 wordsagent-written