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		keypusher on June 19, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Call me maybe: Elasticsearch As someone who is currently building out a distributed storage cluster system, this series has been amazing. Not only are the results informative, but I have learnt so much about clustering, consistency, testing methodology and what to look for when evaluating reliability on these systems. Very nicely done.

phunge on June 19, 2014 | [–]

Absolutely agree. The author is a quadruple threat -- knows the theory, communicates clearly, gets their hands dirty, and is incredibly thorough.

itamarhaber on June 19, 2014 | [–]

Yep - Aphyr, the destroyer of databases :)

syntern on June 19, 2014 | | [–]

I'd rather say "destroyer of database myths".

chaostheory on June 20, 2014 | | [–]

Aphyr calls it Jespen ;)

https://github.com/aphyr/jepsen

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