https://bravenewgeek.com/tag/zinc/Recent content in Zinc on Brave New GeekHugoen-usTue, 21 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0600https://bravenewgeek.com/distributed-messaging-with-zeromq/Wed, 11 Jun 2014 16:56:03 -0600https://bravenewgeek.com/distributed-messaging-with-zeromq/<blockquote> <p><em>“A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn’t even know existed can render your own computer unusable.” -Leslie Lamport</em></p> </blockquote> <p>With the increased prevalence and accessibility of cloud computing, distributed systems architecture has largely supplanted more monolithic constructs. The implication of using a service-oriented architecture, of course, is that you now have to deal with a myriad of difficulties that previously never existed, such as fault tolerance, availability, and horizontal scaling. Another interesting layer of complexity is providing consistency across nodes, which itself is a problem surrounded with endless research. Algorithms like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paxos_(computer_science)">Paxos</a> and <a href="https://ramcloud.stanford.edu/wiki/download/attachments/11370504/raft.pdf">Raft</a> attempt to provide solutions for managing replicated data, while other solutions offer eventual consistency.</p>