Nancy is speaking at QCon San Francisco, Nov 16-18.

Nancy is speaking at QCon San Francisco, Nov 16-18.
Point-to-point creates a direct, exclusive channel: once a consumer takes a message, it's removed from the queue for everyone else. This exclusivity supports strict, one-time processing of financial transactions.
One hot key can pin a Kafka partition at 100% CPU and starve every other consumer. Here's the failure mechanism and a working Go fix using adaptive salting. #distributedsystems
You can deliberately break the cluster and watch exactly why it survives โ or fails.
No build step either.
Open index.html โ start breaking Raft. ๐ฅ
#Raft #DistributedSystems #SystemDesign #Networking #Backend #OpenSource #SoftwareEngineering #ComputerScience
Pub/sub fits scenarios needing parallel processing, broadcast to multiple subscribers, and tolerance for eventual consistency. It suits fintech workflows where one event, like an order fill, triggers several independent reactions.
conversations about distributed systems, messaging, event-driven architecture, and legacy modernization made this an incredible week.
Until next time! ๐
#dotnet #distributedsystems #softwarearchitecture
๐ฌ Last chance to meet the engineers behind @ParticularSW.
If you're at #ndcoslo, share your architecture challenge.
Bonus: While you're here, enter our raffle to win a LEGO Pac-Man Arcade. ๐พ
Your cluster is healthy but refusing writes โ that's Raft working as designed. The mechanism behind consensus: elections, quorums, and your outages. #distributedsystems
How precisely can distributed #wirelesssystems keep time? This survey on wireless #clocksynchronization reviews synchronization protocols and techniques with a wide range of applications. bit.ly/4ccpANm
European Patent Office grants Quantum B patent for quantum-powered distributed consensus protocol, leveraging quantum randomness for secure network coordination.
Whether you have questions about message versioning, evolving event-driven systems, or event-driven architecture, she'd be happy to continue the conversation.
Software systems can collapse like buildings: one failure triggers a domino effect.
The difference? Our dominoes are hidden.
Sam Newman explains how #microservices, #APIs & database dependencies can trigger cascading failures in production.
๐Watch now: buff.ly/9DMlOxY
๐ Visit @ParticularSW booth and chat with our developers
#distributedsystems #messagingpatterns #softwarearchitecture
Hey #NDCOslo! ๐ Meet the engineers behind Particular Software! @SzymonPobiega @PoornimaNayar @Masternak and Andreas are here. Building a #distributedsystems? Bring your architecture questions. We'd love to talk messaging, event-driven systems, reliability, and real-world trade-offs. #dotnet
At infrastructure scale, small memory inefficiencies become big systems problems.
Optimization often starts with understanding the workloadโnot adding capacity.
Learn how stable session identity, monotonically increasing epochs, and fencing prevent stale connections and callbacks from corrupting recovered sessions. #distributedsystems