Patterns of distributed systems

Thoughtworks Technology Podcast

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4.7 • 53 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In today’s cloud-first world, distributed systems are everywhere. Unmesh Joshi gives an insight into his work looking at distributed systems — from distributed databases such as Cassandra to messaging brokers such as Kafka or infrastructure components such as Docker — the common problems that arise and the approaches to solving these problems, which he categorizes as patterns.

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone.
0:05.9	My name is Rebecca Parsons, and I am one of your regular co-hosts for the ThoughtWorks Technology Podcast.
0:13.6	And I am here with one of my other co-host, Jemak Deghani.
0:19.5	Shemak, say hello, please.
0:21.8	Hi, Rebecca.
0:22.7	Great to be here.
0:24.7	Hello, everyone.
0:25.6	It's wonderful to be here.
0:26.7	I've been waiting for this episode, so I'm super excited about what we're going to talk about.
0:30.7	And today we are joined by two guests, Unmesh Joshi, who works with us in our India office and Martin Fowler, who has been on, of course, several of these podcasts.
0:44.2	Unmesh has been spending a lot of time recently writing up several patterns of distributed systems.
0:51.4	And in this episode, we are going to review the approach that he's been taken for
0:58.6	these as well as talking a little bit about why this matters now. So let's start with talking
1:06.8	about Unmesh, you know, why is this so important now and what are you really trying
1:14.1	to bring out about distributed architectures?
1:17.1	Right.
1:18.1	So let's first maybe contextualize when we say distributed what it means.
1:26.3	So when we say distributed, essentially, there are, you can imagine multiple processes or multiple
1:31.3	servers ranging from three to few thousand.
1:35.3	And they essentially manage some data, so they are inherently stateful.
1:41.3	And they communicate by message passing.
1:49.3	So that's the characteristic of when we call something as distributed.
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