System Design in One Easy Piece: Amazon Dynamo

di Abdul Qadeer (Autore)

Systems Potpourri LLC, 2026

The Amazon Dynamo paper changed how the industry thinks about scale. It proved you could choose availability over strict consistency and still run a billion-dollar storefront — but the distance between that landmark academic paper and production-ready code has stopped countless engineers cold. System Design in One Easy Piece is built to close that gap. Volume 1 takes a single landmark system — Amazon's Dynamo (DeCandia et al., SOSP 2007) — and deconstructs it from first principles, one decision at a time. Starting from a deceptively simple question — how do you keep a shopping cart always writable? — it builds the entire architecture in front of you: consistent hashing and the ring, virtual nodes, gossip-based membership, replication and preference lists, quorums (N, R, W), sloppy quorums and hinted handoff, anti-entropy with Merkle trees, version vectors for conflict resolution, and the tail-latency optimizations that make it production-grade. A closing capstone challenges you to assemble the whole system yourself. Written for working software engineers, it sits deliberately between the academic and the practical: rigorous enough to ground every claim in the original paper, concrete enough to use on Monday. Whether you're preparing for a senior system-design interview or designing the next distributed database, this is the blueprint.

• Autore: Abdul Qadeer
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: Systems Potpourri LLC
• Formato: EPUB3 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798996765409