Distributed Systems

Build Your Own Key-Value Storage Engine—Week 7

Block-Based SSTables and Indexing

Feb 26 • Teiva Harsanyi

Build Your Own Key-Value Storage Engine—Week 6

Block-Based SSTables and Indexing

Jan 21 • Teiva Harsanyi

Build Your Own Key-Value Storage Engine—Week 5

Leveling and Key-Range Partitioning

Jan 14 • Teiva Harsanyi

Build Your Own Key-Value Storage Engine—Week 4

Deletes, Tombstones, and Compaction

Dec 17, 2025 • Teiva Harsanyi

Build Your Own Key-Value Storage Engine—Week 3

Durability with Write-Ahead Logging

Dec 3, 2025 • Teiva Harsanyi

Build Your Own Key-Value Storage Engine—Week 2

LSM Tree Foundations

Nov 19, 2025 • Teiva Harsanyi

Build Your Own Key-Value Storage Engine—Week 1

In-Memory Store

Nov 5, 2025 • Teiva Harsanyi

Build Your Own Key-Value Storage Engine

Eight Weeks to a Working Key-Value Storage Engine

Oct 29, 2025 • Teiva Harsanyi

Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs)

No matter when or how often the nodes sync, they always end up with the same state.

Oct 16, 2025 • Teiva Harsanyi

Availability Models

Highly available is too vague; watch out when you read or hear it.

Aug 19, 2025 • Teiva Harsanyi

Working on Complex Systems

This is why recognizing whether a system is complicated or complex is so important: it shapes how we should approach problem-solving.

May 7, 2025 • Teiva Harsanyi

Bloom filters offer a space-efficient solution for checking set membership, trading accuracy for reduced memory usage.

Apr 16, 2025 • Teiva Harsanyi

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