Imagine a world without a global notion of time. Now try to find out the flight direction of an airplane with the following information: There's an e-mail from Alice that she saw the plane about two ...

In recent years an increasing number of enterprises have come to rely heavily on computer systems; indeed many (such as airlines, banks, manufacturers, retailers, and most branches of government) ...

A distributed system is comprised of multiple computing devices interconnected with one another via a loosely-connected network. Almost all computing systems and applications today are distributed in ...

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Gaurav Bansal is a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Uber with 12+ years of experience in scalable, high-performance distributed systems. Every new tech business today builds distributed systems and ...