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Monitoring Distributed Systems

Dotcom-Montior

There was a time when standing up a website or application was simple and straightforward and not the complex networks they are today. Do you have a database? Was the database running? The last item to check was if the web server was able to talk to the database? Blockchain is a good example of this. Peer-to-Peer.

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Even more amazing papers at VLDB 2019 (that I didn’t have space to cover yet)

The Morning Paper

MongoDB is an important database, and this paper explains the tunable (per-operation) consistency models that MongoDB provides and how they are implemented under the covers. Microsoft have a paper describing their new recovery mechanism in Azure SQL Database , the key feature being that it can recovery in constant time.