Are you outsourcing your thinking ?My professional experience with coding agents began in 2025. I remember the day I used AI for writing tests - the kind of work that I am personally not keen on. The idea of outsourcing work that you dOct 1 · 3 min readihorholiak.hashnode.dev
ACCORD - Leaderless consensusSeveral days ago, I was casually scrolling through LinkedIn, ranting as always about how a professional network had become a social network, when I stumbled upon a post claiming that Cassandra is addiSep 7 · 5 min readihorholiak.hashnode.dev
Did Version Vectors Lose?In my previous post, we saw how leaderless systems like Cassandra rely on physical timestamps to order events - and how clock skew can silently discard a later update. Most distributed systems textbooMay 3 · 4 min readihorholiak.hashnode.dev
Why Last Write Wins can be a villainIn my previous post, we explored the intricacies of Read-after-Write consistency in leader-based systems. We came to a conclusion that achieving strong consistency at the individual record level is re1Apr 16 · 6 min readihorholiak.hashnode.dev
20 Years of Eventual Consistency: Why We’re Still Falling for the Same PitfallsAfter years of hesitation, I have finally decided to push my first article to production. I just hope the pipeline doesn’t hang in the middle of the deployment. Eventual consistency isn't new - the co1Apr 15 · 4 min readihorholiak.hashnode.dev
