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Distributed Computing Musings
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Distributed Computing Musings is a personal blog at distributed-computing-musings.com about systems and data. Since 2022, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “Implementing Viewstamped Replication Protocol”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-19, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for explanations of key-value separation in LSM-tree storage engines, such as RocksDB BlobDB and WiscKey, where values are stored outside the main tree and only pointers are kept in it.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Implementing Viewstamped Replication Protocol2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-10-26
What Hacker News says?
> Modern RocksDB also has an option to do key-value separation via Integrated BlobDB. Neat! I had only seen tikv's plugin [0] implementing this before. But they've got their own first-party option [1] now too. The gist being, as I understand it, that WiscKey [2] showed how you can improve both read and write performance if you store values outside of the main LSM tree. (Only store keys in the LSM tree with a pointer…
Comment linking /2022/07/paper-notes-wisckey-separating-keys-from-values-in-ssd-conscious-storage/
on “Magma, a new storage engine for Couchbase”Submitted Thundering herd problem: Preventing the stampede as a story · 49 points
HN discussionSubmitted Azure Storage – A Highly Available Cloud Storage Service with Strong Consistency as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cloud Bits: API Gateways – Cloud System's Reception Desk as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Considerations for high throughput cloud-native relational databases (2023) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Implementing Viewstamped Replication Protocol as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Firestore – The NoSQL Serverless Database for the Application Developer as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Paper Notes: Bitcask – A Log-Structured Hash Table for Fast Key/Value Data as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Implementing Viewstamped Replication protocol (2023) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Firestore – The NoSQL Serverless Database for the Application Developer as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Transactions: Write skew and why we need serialization? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Firestore – The NoSQL Serverless Database for the Application Developer as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Paper Notes: Distributed Transactions at Scale in Amazon DynamoDB – Distributed as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Firestore – The NoSQL Serverless Database for the Application Developer as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Vector Clocks: So what time is it? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Paper Notes: Bitcask – A Log-Structured Hash Table for Fast Key/Value Data as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Paper Notes: Bitcask – A Log-Structured Hash Table for Fast Key/Value Data as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Paper Notes: Bigtable – A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data as a story · 1 points
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