Linear consistency models are crucial in ensuring reliability and coherence in distributed computer systems. These models help manage how systems handle data and operations across multiple nodes, ensuring consistency without sacrificing performance. What is a Linear Consistency Model? In distributed computing, a linear consistency model ensures that operations on distributed data appear as if they
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Understanding Cloud Storage Consistency Models
Posted onCloud storage systems utilize various consistency models to balance performance, availability, and data accuracy. This article explores these models, their trade-offs, and examples of systems using them. We’ll also discuss the CAP theorem and its implications. Consistency Models Strong Consistency Definition: Guarantees that any read operation returns the most recent write for a given piece
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Comparing Paxos and Raft
Posted onPaxos and Raft are both consensus algorithms used to ensure consistency in distributed systems. While they solve similar problems, they have different approaches and design philosophies. Characteristics Paxos Roles: Proposers, Acceptors, Learners. Phases: Two main phases (Prepare/Promise and Propose/Accept). Leader Election: Not explicitly defined, often implemented using Multi-Paxos to handle multiple proposals efficiently. Use Cases:
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Understanding the Paxos Consensus Algorithm
Posted onThe Paxos consensus algorithm is a fundamental concept in distributed computing that ensures a group of distributed systems can agree on a single value, even in the presence of failures. Developed by Leslie Lamport, Paxos is widely used in systems where consistency and fault tolerance are critical, such as databases and distributed ledgers. Consensus Problem
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CalDAV and CardDAV 101
Posted onCalDAV and CardDAV are application layer computer network protocols that enable users to synchronize and manage their calendar (CalDAV) and contact (CardDAV) data across multiple devices and platforms. These open standards protocols leverage the (World Wide Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning) protocol, which provides a framework for users to create, change, and move documents on
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SPF, DKIM and DMARC to Stop Email Sender Fraud: Intro and How to
Posted onEmail sender fraud is an annoying problem. Malicious email senders send spam emails with email senders that are under non-authorized domain names. This may affect the reputation of the domains used by the fraud sender. On another hand, lots emails will be rejected and reverted back, which causes lots additional work to the domain administrators.
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Printing Google Doc with Comments in Page Margins
Posted onGoogle Doc documents support comments which is useful for collaborative editing of files with comments to each others. But when we print the document from Google Doc, the comments are not included. How to print the document with comments in page margins? In this post, we will introduce a method using the opensource and free
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How to Migrate RSS Feed Readling List from Feedly to Follow.it
Posted onHaving a reading list from RSS feeds is a convenient way to organize and aggregate various information source from the Web. After Google Reader was retired, many different readers services are available. Feedly and Follow.it are two good choices among those RSS feed readers. Different readers have different features. Follow.it provides features like keyword filtering
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How to Install Hyperledger Fabric 2.0 in Ubuntu 18.04
Posted onHyperledger Fabric is a consortium blockchain system. It’s performance is relatively good and its modular architecture enables it to be usable in many scenarios. Hyperledger Fabric itself has rich documents and samples of test networks. For beginners, deploying a new network for trying and testing still consumes quite some time. In this post, we will
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How to Install Go 1.13.x on Ubuntu 18.04
Posted onIn Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, the default Go lang version is 1.10. For compatibility reason, the Ubuntu LTS will usually keep the major release version numbers for packages. However, many applications, such as Hyperledger Fabric 2.0, require a newer version of Go. In this post, let’s take a look at how to install a system level
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Dynamics 365 Developer Extension is Now Working in Visual Studio 2017
Posted onI don’t know why Jason Lattimer’s D365DeveloperExensions no more working after VS 2017 release? It seems D365DeveloperExtensions anymore supported for newer Visual Studio version. I am pretty much sure, some of you may be still struggling with installing Dynamics 355 Developer extension for your Visual Studio 2017 community or professional edition. Not sure why this tool has been
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Bash Learning Materials
Posted onBash (GNU Bourne-Again SHell) the default shell for many Linux distributions. It is very common for scripting languages in Linux. Bash is easy and straightforward for writing small tools. However, as most tools, it has its grammars that could easily cause bugs if they are not used correctly. Here I summarize a list of good
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Adding Gmail SMTP in Thunderbird
Posted onGmail’s authentication is secured by rejecting access from less secure apps. By default, adding Gmail SMTP in Thunderbird with your Google account password as SMTP authentication password will not work. And Google is beginning to shut off Google Account access to less secure apps. To solve this, the method is to use OAuth2 authentication instead
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How to synchronize OneDrive and OneDrive for Business files in Linux using Insync
Posted onOneDrive is one of the good cloud storage services available and there is a business version called OneDrive for Business. Microsoft’s Office 365 plan is widely used including Exchange Email service and OneDrive for Business. However, there is no official client released yet for Linux users. Insync is a third party cloud storage syncing software
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What Are the Secrets Behind Google’s Success Story?
Posted onGoogle has created an image that tells us its core values are centered around innovation. There are very few companies that can boast a similar level of influence as Google. Nevertheless, we should not only focus on Google’s achievements today but also learn from their journey to the top. We can break down Google’s core
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What is the Future of Big Data Analytics and Hadoop?
Posted onBig Data has taken a lead in the IT industry and has played a significant role in the Business growth and decision-making processes that gives you an edge over the competitors. This is equally applicable to the organizations as well as professionals existing in the analytics domain. Big Data Analytics bring an ocean of opportunities
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What can we expect in Java update 2019?
Posted onJava is the most regularly used programming language for the creation of web applications. This high-level programming language develops by the Sun Micro-system. This language was designed for use in the world of internet and known for fastest, secure, and most reliable language of the computing platform. One interesting fact is that Java programmers are
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How to synchronize Google Drive and Google Docs files in Ubuntu/Debian/Mint Linux using Insync
Posted onGoogle Drive is a nice cloud storage service. It provides a suite of nice online document spreadsheet and slide editors Google Docs, Google Sheets and Google Slides. The collaborative editing and full history tracking features of Google Docs are excellent. Google Drive gives 16GB free storage which is pretty much larger compared to other free
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How to add Chinese input method to Unbuntu 18.04?
Posted onHow to add Chinese input method, such as Pinyin, to Unbuntu 18.04? To input Chinese, first install an input method framework. Here, we use fcitx. Then you need to input the Pinyin input method. You may use fcitx-sunpinyin. Put them all together $ sudo apt-get install fcitx fcitx-sunpinyin After that, set the default input method
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How to tune systems to achieve high performance in virtualization circumstances?
Posted onMost time, we need to tune system parameters to achieve better performance but what the general parameters to be tuned in Linux systems. I think you may want to add following parameters to Kernel boot (/etc/default/grub) parameters intel_idle.max_cstate=0 processor.max_cstate=0 idle=poll intel_pstate=disable At the same time, you may also want to shutdown/open Pause Loop Exiting (PLE).
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