distributed systems – Listening And Learning

August 26, 2016

Discovering service discovery (Zookeeper vs Consul)

Yesterday I tried to look into the differences between using Zookeeper vs Consul for service discovery. In summary I don’t think that Consul has anything that Zookeeper can’t accomplish, but Consul comes with it built-in. Consul…

August 19, 2016

Alias Method

This post is about a brilliant algorithm called the Alias Method. This method allows you to generate samples according to a discrete probability distribution in constant time. In other words, it allows you to simulate a loaded or…