distributed_systems.md

Themes

SOA, Monoliths, ESB

Autonomy

• Service autonomy principle

Single Responsibility

• The Art of Unix Programming

Isolation, Shared Mutable State, and Immutability

• Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style?

• Immutability Changes Everything

• Shared-nothing architecture

Asynchronous

• Thinking in Promises

• Convenience over Correctness (RPC)

Event Driven, Message Passing

Reactive

• Reactive Manifesto

Distributed Log

• The Log: What every software engineer should know about real-time data’s unifying abstraction

Transactions

• Data on the Outside versus Data on the Inside

Scaling

• Universal Scalability Law
• L Peter Deutsch’s Fallacies of distributed computing
• Gossip protocol

Consistency

• CAP Theorem

• Linearizability versus Serializability

Service Discovery

• Service Discovery in a Microservices Architecture
• Service registry
• Client-side service discovery

Supervision

• Akka: Supervision and Monitoring

Location Transparency

• Location Transparency

Streaming

• The world beyond batch: Streaming 101

Time

• Life Beyond the Illusion of Present

• There is No Now

CRDTs

• A comprehensive study of Convergent and Commutative Replicated Data Types

Eventual Consistency

• Eventually Consistent - Revisited

Robustness

• “RFC 761” on TCP
• Tolerant Reader Pattern

Locality of Reference

• Locality of Reference is an important technique in building highly performant systems. There are two types of reference locality: temporal, reuse of specific data; and spatial, keeping data relatively close in space. It is important to understand and optimize for both.

References

Books

• Reactive Microservices Architecture
  O'Reilly, 2016-04

• Reactive Microsystems
  O'Reilly, 2017-09