Replication, atomicity and order in distributed systems →
Distributed systems are an increasingly important topic in Computer Science. The difficulty and immediate applicability of this topic is what makes distributed systems rewarding to study and build.
The goal of this post (and future posts on this topic) is to help the reader develop a basic toolkit they could use to reason about distributed systems. The toolkit should help the reader see the well known patterns in the specific problems they’re solving, to identify the cases where others have already solved the problems they’re facing and to understand the cases where solving hundred percent of the problem may not be worth the effort.
