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Cloud Native Jan 12, 2022 Architect

Service Governance and etcd: Architecture, Core Technologies, and Large‑Scale Implementation

This article explains service governance concepts, the challenges of managing thousands of micro‑services, introduces etcd and its Raft‑based consistency model, details BoltDB storage internals, and describes Baidu's large‑scale Tianlu platform with its high‑availability, performance, scalability, and operational metrics.

distributed systemscloud nativeservice governanceRaftetcd
Fundamentals Dec 20, 2021 Architect

Understanding Distributed Systems: Zookeeper, 2PC/3PC, Consensus Algorithms, CAP and BASE Theories

This article explains the evolution from centralized to distributed architectures, the role of Zookeeper in solving consistency problems, the mechanics and drawbacks of 2‑phase and 3‑phase commits, and key consensus algorithms such as Paxos, Raft, ZAB, as well as CAP and BASE theories that guide practical system design.

Distributed SystemsBASE theoryCAP theoremZookeeper2PC3PCconsensus algorithms
Databases Dec 1, 2021 AntTech

Maxwell High‑Performance Accounting Database: Architecture, Performance, and Real‑World Deployment at Alipay

The article presents Maxwell, a C/assembly‑based high‑performance accounting database designed for Alipay, detailing its architecture, hotspot account challenges, performance optimizations such as Raft and a custom storage engine, and real‑world results showing thousand‑fold throughput gains and robust operation during massive promotional events.

Performance OptimizationDatabaseStorage EngineHigh PerformanceAccountingRaftAlipay
Big Data Sep 26, 2021 Cloud Native Technology Community

Apache Kafka 3.0.0 Release Summary: New Features, Improvements, Bugs, Tasks, and Tests

Apache Kafka 3.0.0, released on September 21, 2021, introduces major changes such as deprecating Java 8 and Scala 2.12, adding Raft‑based metadata quorum, stronger producer delivery guarantees, removal of old message formats, numerous performance optimizations, extensive bug fixes, and a large set of new and updated JIRA issues across features, improvements, bugs, tasks, tests, and subtasks.

Big DataStreamingKafkaApacheRelease NotesKafka3.0
Databases Sep 6, 2021 IT Architects Alliance

Comprehensive Overview of Data Models, Storage Engines, Transactions, Consistency, and Replication in Modern Databases

This article provides a detailed summary of database concepts including data models (relational, document, graph), storage engine architectures (page‑oriented B‑tree, log‑structured LSM), transaction mechanisms, isolation levels, distributed transaction protocols, partitioning strategies, indexing, consistency models, and consensus algorithms such as Lamport timestamps and Raft.

replicationtransactionsconsistencydistributed databasesPartitioningconsensus algorithmsstorage enginesdata models
Databases Aug 6, 2021 High Availability Architecture

Design and Evolution of BaikalDB: A Distributed Database for Commercial Product Systems

This article examines the requirements of commercial advertising systems for data storage, traces the evolution from single‑node MySQL to BaikalDB’s cloud‑native, MySQL‑compatible distributed architecture, and details its storage, compute, and scheduling designs, highlighting key features such as Raft replication, RocksDB storage, and hybrid OLTP/OLAP support.

cloud nativeSQLdistributed databasestorage architectureRocksDBRaftBaikalDB
Cloud Computing Jul 9, 2021 DeWu Technology

Common Service Registration Centers: Principles and Comparisons

The article compares four popular service registration centers—Eureka, Zookeeper, Consul, and Nacos—by outlining each system’s architecture, core principles, and operational mechanisms, with an in‑depth source‑code‑level examination of Nacos’s pull/push discovery, Raft‑based leader election, and concurrent instance management, and concludes with a comparative table of consistency, availability, and partition‑tolerance characteristics.

distributed systemsMicroservicesZookeeperNacosConsulEurekaservice registration
Databases Jul 1, 2021 Ops Development Stories

Understanding Database Write-Ahead Logs (WAL) and Their Implementation in etcd

This article explains common database logging mechanisms such as MySQL redo logs and binlogs, compares them with Redis AOF and etcd's Raft‑based WAL, and provides an in‑depth analysis of etcd's WAL source code, including key structures, creation process, record types, encoding, and file pipeline management.

GoRaftWALetcdwrite-ahead logdatabase logs
Big Data Jun 25, 2021 Laravel Tech Community

Apache Kudu 1.15.0 – New Features and Improvements

Apache Kudu 1.15.0 adds experimental multi‑row transaction support (currently INSERT and INSERT_IGNORE), Raft‑based master configuration tools, table comment synchronization with Hive Metastore, per‑table size and row‑count limits configurable via flags or the kudu table set_limit tool, a customizable Kerberos principal flag, and TLS v1.3 with optional cipher‑suite selection, collectively enhancing low‑latency random access and analytical capabilities in the Hadoop ecosystem.

Big DataStorage EngineHadoopKerberosApache KuduTLSv1.3
Big Data May 6, 2021 Full-Stack Internet Architecture

Why Kafka Dropped Zookeeper in Version 2.8: Design Philosophy and Alternatives

The article explains the design philosophy behind Kafka 2.8’s removal of Zookeeper, reviews Zookeeper’s classic leader‑election use cases, highlights its limitations, and shows how the Raft protocol provides a decentralized alternative for high‑availability leader selection in distributed messaging systems.

distributed-systemsbig-datazookeeperkafkaraftleader-election
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