Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. In this episode, Thomas Betts chats with ...

What is a distributed system? A distributed system is a collection of independent computers that appear to the user as a single coherent system. To accomplish a common objective, the computers in a ...

We saw in Part 1 that linked lists provide the conceptual foundation for blockchain, where a ‘block’ is a package of data and blocks are strung together by some type of linking mechanism such as ...

The ever-growing scale of high-performance computing systems, particularly with the transition to exascale computing, has underscored the critical need for robust fault tolerance. As these systems ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Vivek Yadav, an engineering manager from ...

In the context of deep learning model training, checkpoint-based error recovery techniques are a simple and effective form of fault tolerance. By regularly saving the ...

Basic principles behind distributed systems (collections of independent components that appear to users as a single coherent system) and main paradigms used to organize them. This course satisfies the ...

Operating systems can play a key role in keeping a system highly available. Most off-the-shelf OS vendors, however, are only starting to address fault-tolerance by offering hardened versions of their ...