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Gossip-based Failure Detectors – 0.8.0 released

September 8, 2017

We have just released version 0.8.0 of our distlib C++ library that implements a number of popular distributed systems algorithms. This concludes a first iteration of the “SWIM Gossip Protocol” for failure detection: the implementation is now fully thread-safe and can scale up to many servers with minimal process overhead. The gossip_example.cpp toy server shows how a client … More Gossip-based Failure Detectors – 0.8.0 released

From null to a hundred in six months (3)

February 14, 2014

Or how to achieve bi-weekly releases at SaaS scale Part III – People This is Part III of a series, see Other Parts in the Series Stupidity Laws One day many years ago, must have been around 2001, when I was still involved with my own venture, I happened across a short pamphlet tantalizingly named The … More From null to a hundred in six months (3)

From null to a hundred in six months (2)

February 7, 2014

Or how to achieve bi-weekly releases at SaaS scale Part II – Tools This is Part II of a series, see Other Parts in the Series Code is King A certain kind of people will tell you that a car is just a means to “get from A to B”: I insist that there is … More From null to a hundred in six months (2)

From null to a hundred in six months

February 3, 2014

Or how to achieve bi-weekly releases at SaaS scale Background Almost exactly a year ago I joined RiverMeadow: a self-described “cloud mobility” SaaS platform, with the modest task of improving a product I was told was “ready for market” and a team that only needed “some improvement, and a better adoption of Engineering best practices” – in slightly … More From null to a hundred in six months

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Gossip-based Failure Detectors – 0.8.0 released