Patterns of Distributed Systems (Addison-Wesley Signature Series Quotes

“There should be an upper bound of, say, a few hundred kilobytes so you can be sure the applications’ data transfer is not impacted by too many messages across the cluster.”
― Unmesh joshi, Patterns of Distributed Systems (Addison-Wesley Signature Series

“etcd has a watch implementation that is heavily used by Kubernetes for its resource watch implementation.”
― Unmesh joshi, Patterns of Distributed Systems (Addison-Wesley Signature Series

“in Java, System.currentMillis gives wall clock time and System.nanoTime gives monotonic clock time.”
― Unmesh joshi, Patterns of Distributed Systems (Addison-Wesley Signature Series

“Because of this, two consecutive readings of the wall clock time on a given server can have time going backwards.”
― Unmesh joshi, Patterns of Distributed Systems (Addison-Wesley Signature Series