Tag: Book Notes
All the articles with the tag "Book Notes".
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he Enduring Relevance of Peter Chen’s Entity-Relationship Model
In the landscape of data modeling, few contributions have had the long-lasting impact of Peter Chen’s Entity-Relationship (E-R) Model , introduced in 1976. More than four decades later, it remains a
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Understanding Distributed System - Maintainability
Introduction It’s widely recognized that the bulk of software costs arise after its initial development in maintenance tasks like bug fixes, feature additions, and day-to-day operation. Therefore,
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Understanding Distributed System – Resiliency
Introduction Chapter 24 - Common Failure Causes Hardware Faults Incorrect Error Handling Configuration Changes Single Points of Failure Network Faults Resources Leaks Load Pressure Cascading Failures
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Understanding Distributed System – Scalability
Introduction Scaling an application involves maintaining performance as load increases. The long-term solution for increasing capacity is to architect for horizontal scalability. In this section,
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Understanding Distributed System – Coordination
Introduction Our ultimate goal is to build a distributed application consisting of a group of processes that gives its users the illusion they are interacting with one coherent node. While achieving a
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Understanding Distributed System - Communication
Part I - Communication Introduction Interprocess communication (IPC) is fundamental to distributed systems, enabling processes to exchange data over networks. This communication relies on agreed-upon
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On Undertanding Programs - Dijkstra
In my life I have seen many programming courses that were essentially like the usual kind of driving lessons, in which one is taught how to handle a car instead of how to use a car to reach one's
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Testing, Computers and society in Notes On Structured Programming
The computer scientist Dijkstra, has some strong opinions about tesing, the art of programming and the impact of the computer in the society. Let's take a second to read the opinion he wrote in Notes