A brief introduction to Download Managers in GoLang
Have you ever wondered how web browsers download anything from the internet? Imagine a scenario in which an application wants to download a large file (Zip file, Video, etc.) from...
Time, Clocks and the Ordering of Events in Distributed Systems
Have you ever wondered what it takes to tell which event happened before which in Distributed Systems? This concept was examined in Time, Clocks and the Ordering of Events in...
Summary of Tail At Scale Paper
Every day we interact with a lot of web services like Google, Netflix, Instagram, etc. For example, Google responds with search results very quickly to user input while processing terabytes...
Introduction to Rate Limiting
Have you ever wondered how some websites protect themselves from DDoS attacks or why we get status code HTTP 429 in response to calling some API (Ex: GitHubAPI) too many...