Best of Distributed Systems — May 2024

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   freeCodeCamp·2y

   How to Build Resilient Microservice Systems – SOLID Principles for Microservices

   Learn about the SOLID principles and best practices for building efficient microservices.

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   ByteByteGo·2y

   How Slack Built a Distributed Cron Execution System for Scale

   Slack built a distributed cron execution system for scale by developing a new execution service written in Go and deployed on Bedrock. They faced issues with maintainability, cost-ineffective vertical scaling, and a single point of failure. The high-level cron execution architecture includes a Scheduled Job Conductor and a Job Queue. Slack also used a Vitess database table for deduplication and job tracking.

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   Quastor Daily·2y

   How Stripe synchronizes time across their distributed system

   Learn how Stripe synchronizes time across their distributed system using physical and logical clocks. Explore common misconceptions about time and the two main methods for measuring time in distributed systems.

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   Community Picks·2y

   How to Increase Test Coverage with Tracing

   This post discusses the importance of test coverage and how tracing data can help improve it in distributed systems. It also explains the difference between test coverage and code coverage.

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   Cerbos·2y

   Service-to-service authorization: A guide to non-user principals

   Learn about non-user principals, their importance in service-to-service communication, and how they can help address authentication and authorization challenges in distributed systems.

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   Javarevisited·2y

   Debugging Kubernetes Part 1: An Introduction

   This post introduces Kubernetes and its role in solving real-world problems faced by developers in production environments. It explains the challenges of production debugging in Kubernetes, the fundamental principles of Kubernetes, and the evolution of deployment technologies before Kubernetes.

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