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Distributed Systems
Flink, RocksDB, Raft, MapReduce, compression, checkpointing.
Articles (4)
2025-03-15
Raft in Five Minutes
Raft is Paxos that you can actually explain at a whiteboard. The mental model in five minutes.
2024-10-22
RocksDB Write Amplification
Why your RocksDB-backed database writes 10× the bytes you asked it to, and what the levers are.
2024-08-12
Flink Checkpointing — What Actually Goes Wrong
A field guide to the failure modes I hit during my BU thesis on adaptive Flink checkpointing.
2023-08-21
A Merkle Tree POC in Rust — ZeroSync, 2023
A from-scratch Merkle tree in Rust over JSON records, built as a proof-of-concept for tamper-evident sync at ZeroSync. SHA-256, deterministic field hashing, and what the borrow checker forced me to learn.