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Apr 16, 2026 4 minScaling Kafka - Part 1 : Choosing the Right Number of Kafka Partitions
How to choose the right number of Kafka partitions: balancing write throughput, consumer parallelism, and operability when scaling a Kafka deployment.
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Mar 10, 2026 9 minPaxos: Achieving Consensus in a Distributed System
An introduction to the Paxos consensus algorithm for distributed systems, explained through the analogy of a chaotic Senate trying to agree on and pass a bill.
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