#distributed-systems
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I Tried to Invent a Better Replication Policy. It Failed.
I built Nearsight, a distributed KV store based on time-decaying consistency, expecting it to reduce replication cost. The prototype worked. The benchmark story didn't.
From Heavy Hitters to Lazy Decay: Learning to Forget at Scale
Detecting hot keys in real time is easy to explain and hard to age correctly. This piece is about the moment where counting is not enough and forgetting becomes the real design ...