Best of 2018

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2018. 170 posts.

Databases & Data
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Consistency Models

Jepsen analyzes the safety properties of distributed systems–most notably, identifying violations of consistency models. But what are consistency models? What phenomena do they allow? What kind of consistency does a given program really need?

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Jepsen: Aerospike 3.99.0.3

Aerospike , formerly Citrusleaf, is a distributed, sharded document store designed for high-throughput, low-latency applications. Each record is a map of keys to values, which may be either primitive types (integers, strings, bytes, etc.) or nested collections like lists and maps. Secondary indices are also available…