Author: Raimondo Lazzara
How to build fault-tolerant software systems
A brief introduction to the fundamental concepts of Erlang and Elixir Ever since the first electronic systems have been created, engineers and developers have strived to provide solutions to guarantee their robustness and fault-tolerance. Thereof arose the understanding that developing and building a fault-tolerant system is not an easy task, because it requires a deep…
The Renaissance of column stores
While attending the lecture ‘Ultra Large Scale Systems’ I got introduced into the quite intriguing topic of high-performance data storage systems. One subject which caught my special attention were column-oriented database management systems (column stores) about which I decided to give a presentation. Being quite lengthy and intricate, I realized that the presentation left my…