distributed – Row Coding

Where does IPFS store all the data?

February 7, 2023 by Tarik

When you upload something, the file is chunked by ipfs and stored in your cache folder (.ipfs). If you check the file existance on another peer of the network (say the main gateway, ipfs.io) that peer requests the file from you and caches it too. If later you switch off your daemon and you can … Read more

In Apache Kafka why can’t there be more consumer instances than partitions?

November 22, 2022 by Tarik

Ok, to understand it, one needs to understand several parts. In order to provide ordering total order, the message can be sent only to one consumer. Otherwise it would be extremely inefficient, because it would need to wait for all consumers to recieve the message before sending the next one: However, although the server hands … Read more