While Apache Kafka is slowly introducing KRaft to simplify its approach to consistency, systems built on Raft show more promise for tomorrow’s hyper-gig workloads. Consensus is fundamental to ...

As the name suggests, data replication involves keeping identical data sets in more than one database node. There are two types of data replication in a database management system: Full replication is ...

It's rare to see an enterprise that relies solely on centralized computing. But there are nevertheless still many organizations that do keep a tight grip on their internal data center and eschew any ...

In an age where data has emerged as the new oil, organizations across industries are racing to refine how they collect, manage, and extract insights from it. At the core of this revolution lies cloud ...

A global certification pathway validates NoSQL expertise through secure testing and digital credentials aligned with ...

The cost of allowing data's value to decay, even briefly, is real. Revenue opportunities are missed, marketing spend is wasted, and operational inefficiencies creep in. A single failure can damage ...

Basic principles behind distributed systems (collections of independent components that appear to users as a single coherent system) and main paradigms used to organize them. This course satisfies the ...

In 1969, the U.S. Department of Defense created ARPANET, the precursor to today’s internet. Around the same time, the SWIFT protocol used for money transfers was also established. These are both early ...