The Boston Java Meetup Group March 28, 2021 - Distributed Java DBs Under the Hood by Val Kulichenko

Code: https://github.com/vkulichenko/code-session
Slides: t.ly/mySS

Distributed databases are becoming more and more popular. Social networks, online banking, and retail—these are only a few examples of applications that might require horizontal scalability to achieve the performance, capacity, and availability that organizations require.
In this talk, we identify some of the internal mechanisms that distributed systems use to achieve the required goals. We describe the minimal architecture of distributed data storage—the main components and how the components work together.