Martin Fowler Partitions need to be mapped to cluster nodes. The mapping also needs to be stored and made accessible to the clients. It’s

Martin Fowler Solution One of the common techniques used in peer-to-peer systems is to order cluster nodes according to their ‘age’.

Martin Fowler Problem Consider a key-value store where values are stored with a timestamp to designate each version. Any cluster node that

Martin Fowler If you look at recent articles on this site, you might notice that I’m not writing very much these days. Instead, most of my energy

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Martin Fowler Kent Beck introduced the term User Story as part of Extreme Programming to foster a more agile and conversational style of

Martin Fowler Code rots. That’s what everyone says: entropy is inevitable, and chaos eventually turns your beautifully imagined, well-designed

Martin Fowler A couple of recent conversations about Twitter were nudging me into writing about how I use Twitter even before The Muskover

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Martin Fowler The core to a successful legacy displacement is the gradual replacement of legacy with new software, as this allows benefits to