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A deep dive into the Apache Cassandra database.
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Á gentle introduction to recursion. Plus how to solve the Hanoi's Tower problem.
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Message delivery semantics and Hinted Handoff pattern in distributed systems.
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Celebrating the first year of the newsletter and adding a paid subscription plan. Plus a how Redis Pub-Sub works.
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Delivering Mail
How the process of delivering emails works. Plus, a detailed explanation of the communication protocols involved.
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Key and Values
An overview of key-value databases. Plus the most common storage types in the cloud.
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Partitions
A primer on database partitioning. Horizontal and Vertical partitioning plus the most common sharding strategies.
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Scaling
How PayPal scaled Kafka to handle 1+ Trillion of daily events. Plus using geoDNS and edge cache to build systems reaching a global audience.
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