As systems become both more complex and more resilient it is becoming increasingly important to provide distributed configuration and coordination services to a plethora of agents (coded in various languages and paradigms) across a businesses framework. Consequently providing appropriate tooling, in various languages, has become a central task in many environments for operation success. Quick […]
Prion Library (v1) Released
[Originally published 10/01/2018] The Prion library is now available (Prion @ GitHub) I will have multiple articles forthcoming on the object model and how to utilize the library in different settings. All feedback is welcome. There are obviously many changes/optimizations that can be made. More materials will be available shortly. Getting Started With Prion List of […]
It’s Good to Be Odd (and > 1)
[Originally published 09/24/2018] In terms of distributed systems there has been an evolution from simply marshaling resources of multiple devices (usually lower-end or commodity hardware) to actively controlling entire ecosystems of related processes and assets across multiple datacenters and types. In its earliest form, a distributed system was basically a cluster. While the term cluster […]
A Simple Example of a Distributed Workload (and Waste)
[Originally published 09/27/2018] I wanted to write a quick article on distributing workloads as a sort of “white paper” if you will to illustrate the overall power of distributed approaches and as an easy indicator on the classes of problems that lend themselves well to distribution (and which ones may not be as amenable to the […]