Dec 3, 2025 · 3 min read · Welcome to a blog series where we strip away the Kubernetes magic and look at the raw computer science concepts that power your cluster. At a high level, the difference is simple: CronJob (The Alarm Clock): A task designed to finish. It starts, does...
Join discussionMar 27, 2025 · 4 min read · What Problem Does Leader Election Solve? In distributed systems, many nodes (servers) work together to perform tasks. However, some tasks require coordination by a single node to avoid conflicts or inconsistencies. For example: Database Writes : Onl...
Join discussionNov 24, 2024 · 7 min read · Introduction Kafka is a distributed event store and stream processing platform originally developed by LinkedIn for real-time processing. In 2011, Kafka was transferred to the Apache Software Foundation, and since then, countless software development...
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Aug 12, 2023 · 7 min read · The first time I came across leader election in distributed systems, I found it interesting; the idea that machines have a leader, got me thinking about the Terminator movies. I was invested, so I did some research to know what it was about. Now, I a...
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Nov 18, 2022 · 3 min read · According to the docs, etcd is a strongly consistent, distributed key-value store that provides a reliable way to store data that needs to be accessed by a distributed system or cluster of machines. Etcd stores data in the form of key-value pairs und...
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