https://stultus.in/notes/tags/distributed-systems/Recent content in Distributed-Systems on stultus notesHugoen-usHrishikesh Bhaskaran ♥Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://stultus.in/notes/activitypub/Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://stultus.in/notes/activitypub/ActivityPub is a W3C standard that defines how federated servers communicate using actors, inboxes, and a shared activity vocabulary.https://stultus.in/notes/circuit-breaker-pattern/Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://stultus.in/notes/circuit-breaker-pattern/The circuit breaker pattern prevents a system from wasting resources on a failing remote dependency by short-circuiting requests after consecutive failures.https://stultus.in/notes/federated-search/Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://stultus.in/notes/federated-search/Federated search solves the problem of finding the best results across N independent search indexes without querying all of them.https://stultus.in/notes/federation/Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://stultus.in/notes/federation/Federation applies the email model to any networked application — independent servers interoperate through a shared protocol without central coordination.https://stultus.in/notes/http-signatures-in-federation/Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://stultus.in/notes/http-signatures-in-federation/HTTP Signatures use public-key cryptography to verify that a federated message actually came from the server it claims to be from.https://stultus.in/notes/relay-pattern-in-federation/Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://stultus.in/notes/relay-pattern-in-federation/A relay instance acts as a hub that redistributes activities, reducing the delivery cost from N×(N-1) direct connections to 2N.https://stultus.in/notes/webfinger/Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://stultus.in/notes/webfinger/WebFinger (RFC 7033) is a simple discovery protocol that maps a handle like @user@domain to the URL of an actor’s identity document.https://stultus.in/notes/local-vs-distributed-objects/Tue, 05 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://stultus.in/notes/local-vs-distributed-objects/The fundamental differences between local and distributed object interactions.https://stultus.in/notes/sources/a-note-on-distributed-computing/Tue, 05 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://stultus.in/notes/sources/a-note-on-distributed-computing/A critique of the ‘unified view’ of local and distributed objects.https://stultus.in/notes/a-note-on-distributed-computing-paper/Tue, 05 Nov 2024 02:58:24 +0530https://stultus.in/notes/a-note-on-distributed-computing-paper/The thesis that local and distributed objects are fundamentally different.