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DynamoDB: An Inside Look Into NoSQL – Part 6

Posted on August 20, 2014 by pristinecrap

In Part 5, we spoke about data versioning, the 2 reconciliation strategies and how vector clocks are used for the same. In this article, we will talk about Handling Failures. Handling Failures – Hinted Handoff Even under the simplest of … Continue reading →

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DynamoDB: An Inside Look Into NoSQL – Part 4

Posted on July 15, 2014 by pristinecrap

In Part 3, we mentioned the various distributed techniques used while architecting NoSQL data stores. A table nicely summarized these techniques and their advantages. In this article, we will go into the details of partitioning and replication. Partitioning As mentioned … Continue reading →

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DynamoDB: An Inside Look Into NoSQL – Part 1

Posted on June 4, 2014 by pristinecrap

In our earlier posts (here and here), we introduced the Hadoop ecosystem & explained its various components using a real world example of the retail industry. We now possess a fair idea of the advantages of Big Data. NoSQL datastores … Continue reading →

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Hazelcast & Distributed Sequence Counter

Posted on May 23, 2014 by pristinecrap

There always comes a time in your professional career when you get stuck, and for days at a time! Every developer worth his salt has definitely gone through this phase. Another such moment occurred in my career too recently. We … Continue reading →

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Play Framework – Good or Bad?

Posted on May 13, 2013 by pristinecrap

The latest buzz word doing the rounds is Play Framework. It is deployed at high-profile companies such as LinkedIn. Chances are that you would not have heard of Play or Akka (because I hadn’t :-)) When we started work on … Continue reading →

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