Patterns of Distributed Systems

Part I. Narratives

    Chapter 1. Why Distribute?
    Chapter 2. Overview of the Patterns

Part II. Patterns of Data Replication

    Chapter 3. Write-Ahead Log
    Chapter 4. Segmented Log
    Chapter 5. Low-Water Mark
    Chapter 6. Leader and Followers
    Chapter 7. HeartBeat
    Chapter 8. Paxos
    Chapter 9. Replicated Log
    Chapter 10. Quorum
    Chapter 11. Generation Clock
    Chapter 12. High-Water Mark
    Chapter 13. Singular Update Queue
    Chapter 14. Request Waiting List
    Chapter 15. Idempotent Receiver
    Chapter 16. Follower Reads
    Chapter 17. Versioned Value
    Chapter 18. Version Vector

Part III. Patterns of Data Partitioning

    Chapter 19. Fixed Partitions
    Chapter 20. Key-Range Partitions
    Chapter 21. Two Phase Commit

Part IV. Patterns of Distributed Time

    Chapter 22. Lamport Clock
    Chapter 23. Hybrid Clock
    Chapter 24. Clock-Bound Wait

Part V. Patterns of Cluster Management

    Chapter 25. Consistent Core
    Chapter 26. Lease
    Chapter 27. State Watch
    Chapter 28. Gossip Dissemination
    Chapter 29. Emergent Leader

Part VI. Patterns of communication between nodes

    Chapter 30. Single Socket Channel
    Chapter 31. Request Batch
    Chapter 32. Request Pipeline

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