Cloudflare Introduces Meerkat for Strongly Consistent Global Coordination
Cloudflare recently introduced Meerkat, an internal globally consistent control-plane service based on the QuePaxa consensus algorithm. Unlike Raft,…
Airbnb Shares Architecture Behind Sitar-Agent Dynamic Configuration Sidecar for Kubernetes Services
Airbnb engineers have detailed the architecture of Sitar-agent, a Kubernetes sidecar that distributes dynamic configuration updates across tens…
Timeouts, Retries and Idempotency In Distributed Systems
Transcript Newman: I’m going to be talking about something very basic, which is almost like the fundamental ideas…