Questions tagged [distributed-system]
This tag can be used by questions on distributed system concept, design, and implementations.
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Prevent unregistered users from accessing the system using JWT?
I am working on an identity and users service in a microservices system for which a passwordless, SMS-based authentication is a hard requirement, i.e.
User enters their phone number
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How to design a distributed system with an event broker where strong ordering is required?
I was trying to model a fairly simple real world model inside a distributed system and got stuck thinking about timing and order and would appreciate some external view on it.
Assuming I have this ...
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How should I implement System Design patterns in general and when to use these patterns in every aspect?
I have been learning a lot of new things lately, DevOps, Cloud Computing, Monitoring, and Security. I have been facing my problems dead on, but System Design seems to be a bit complicated. I have ...
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Does possession of a valid JWT automatically imply the user is authenticated?
I am tasked with implementing authentication and authorization in a distributed environment, so I plan to use JWT.
I get how authorization works with JWT - if the token is not expired, and the ...
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System Design for low latency reliable online chess game
I want to build a low-latency chess backend (something similar to live chess on chess.com or basically any other online real-time chess), but there are a couple of questions I am unable to get answers ...
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What multicast guarantees does passive replication provide?
I know that active replication provides a total ordered multicast (atomic multicast) but what does passive replication provide ?
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For distributed workflows - tradeoffs having stateless workers operate on central state, versus stateful workers?
I'm working on a problem right now that processes incoming data at a very high rate. Each event that flows in has an association ID, and each group of associated events will affect behaviour over time ...
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Lock management for isolation in SAGA Pattern
System Overview:
The architecture involves two services with separate databases:
User-Order Service: Handles user actions such as placing, canceling, and returning orders.
Seller-Order Service: ...
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Design question for exactly-once processing in a message-driven system using a unique ID
To achieve exactly-once processing where messages are consumed from a queue with at-least-once delivery, many sources (e.g. here and here and here) suggest attaching a unique ID to messages in the ...
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How to track external media (binaries) that multiple engineers will update?
I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this--if not, please point me in the right direction. This will be a little long-winded due to the specific nature of my question, so I apologize in advance....
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Does quorum protocols circumvent fundamental limitations posed by the CAP theorem?
I can have multiple replicas of my database to ensure high availability. Then I can have a quorum such that R+W > N to ensure consistency.
So does strategies like quorum base read/write or ...
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How to rebalance data across nodes?
I am implementing a message queue where messages are distributed across nodes in a cluster. The goal is to design a system to be able to auto-scale without needing to keep a global map of each message ...
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Subscribing to a range of topics per instance of a service [closed]
If I have a system where my distributed service is sending live scores of 1000 s of football games from some hypothetical event to millions of clients. The service subscribes to the games from a ...
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how about using kubernetes statefulset to mapping the snowflake datacener id and worker id
I am developing a distribution id project, now using the twitter snowflake id as the fundation of the distribution id. In kubernetes cluster, to fetch the uniq and non-conflict datacenter id and ...
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Problem with data consistency in Microservice architecture(2pc transaction) when external dependency envolved
I have microservice architecture. I implement a distributed transaction flow (2-phase commit), kafka, and 1 coordinator service. So, my problem is in each step of preparation I am calling an outside ...
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