[This article is moved from my old blog which can be found here]. I love arrays because they are amazing data structures. Most languages allocate contiguous memory locations for an array thus they offer great memory locality. For accessing an element of an array, there is virtually no seek time…

[This article is moved from my old blog which can be found here]. In this post, we will look at how to effectively manage anti-entropy in your distributed system. Though a little oblique, this is an important topic. We will take forward, the system developed in last two series, fixing…

[This article is moved from my old blog which can be found here]. As we discussed in Distributed Systems Part-1: A peek into consistent hashing, of this series, it is difficult to get distributed system work perfectly, all the time. Though, it has self healing capabilities but sometimes we might…

[This article is moved from my old blog which can be found here]. When we talk about scale, we talk about distributed systems which scale horizontally. If you want to find where all you can be proved wrong, dive into distributed systems. Anyways, the first thing we would learn about…

In early 2018, I decided to relocate from Silicon Valley to India. It was a tough decision because my family was well settled in the Bay Area. But it was the chance to setup a new Engineering R&D Center from scratch which excited me about the opportunity. At Tact.ai, we…