Questions tagged [distributed-system]
This tag can be used by questions on distributed system concept, design, and implementations.
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How to design a distributed system with an event broker where strong ordering is required?
I was trying to model a fairly simple real world model inside a distributed system and got stuck thinking about timing and order and would appreciate some external view on it. Assuming I have this ...
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Does possession of a valid JWT automatically imply the user is authenticated?
I am tasked with implementing authentication and authorization in a distributed environment, so I plan to use JWT. I get how authorization works with JWT - if the token is not expired, and the ...
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What multicast guarantees does passive replication provide?
I know that active replication provides a total ordered multicast (atomic multicast) but what does passive replication provide ?
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Lock management for isolation in SAGA Pattern
System Overview: The architecture involves two services with separate databases: User-Order Service: Handles user actions such as placing, canceling, and returning orders. Seller-Order Service: ...
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How to track external media (binaries) that multiple engineers will update?
I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this--if not, please point me in the right direction. This will be a little long-winded due to the specific nature of my question, so I apologize in advance....
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How to rebalance data across nodes?
I am implementing a message queue where messages are distributed across nodes in a cluster. The goal is to design a system to be able to auto-scale without needing to keep a global map of each message ...
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how about using kubernetes statefulset to mapping the snowflake datacener id and worker id
I am developing a distribution id project, now using the twitter snowflake id as the fundation of the distribution id. In kubernetes cluster, to fetch the uniq and non-conflict datacenter id and ...
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What is the difference between Eventual Consistency, Strong Eventual Consistency, and Causal Consistency?
I read articles about CRDTs and frequently come across the terms 'Strong Eventual Consistency,' 'Eventual Consistency,' and 'Causal Consistency.' What is the relationship between these consistency ...
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