Tag
write-skew
- Oct 13, 2026 Why Append-Only Keys Concentrate Load on One Shard Monotonic keys place every insert at the end of the key space, so one partition absorbs the write traffic. The fixes, from bit-reversal to bucket suffixes, and what each costs. distributed systems
- Jun 10, 2026 Serializable Snapshot Isolation When Reads Span Several Shards How SSI tracks rw-dependencies to detect dangerous structures, why the conflict graph must be shared between shards, and what the read-only optimisation costs once reads are remote. distributed systems