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Why Pinterest Moved to HTTP/3?
About a month ago (Feb 24, 2023), Pinterest published a blog that they moved to HTTP/3 HTTP/3 will help in cases of large payload transmissions such as image/video downloading. (No HOL in HTTP/3) Connection Migration across IP address, such as mobile use cases. (No Handshakes in HTTP/3) Congested network or limited bandwidth. (Less RTT in…
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Raft – the most popular distributed database consensus algorithm
etcd CockroachDB TiKV InFluxDB Consul HashiCorp Kafka Dgraph It may be worthwhile to look into Raft as some of these databases are able to claim fault tolerance, high availability due to using Raft. It is also worthwhile to see the short comings of Raft as the system can go into error state if there are…