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A Practical Roadmap to Learning Linux
A personal and structured approach to mastering Linux — from command-line basics to user management and scripting — shared from first-hand learning experience.
Aug 5, 2023 2 min read
Exploring the Power of Google Spanner for Distributed Transaction Processing
An overview of Google Spanner’s architecture, distributed transactions, and the TrueTime API, based on the paper by Corbett et al.
Nov 22, 2022 3 min read
Exploring the Power of Google File System: The Distributed Storage System That Revolutionized Big Data
An overview of the Google File System (GFS), its architecture, design decisions, and the assumptions behind it, based on the paper by Ghemawat et al.
Nov 19, 2022 11 min read
Understanding VMware FT: Deterministic Replay and Continuous Availability in Virtualized Environments
An in-depth look at VMware Fault Tolerance (FT) and how it achieves transparent failover for virtual machines using deterministic replay, based on the paper by Scales, Nelson, and Venkitachalam.
Sep 1, 2022 4 min read