Harvest, Yield, and Scalable Tolerant Systems
A production milestone from 1999 whose ideas keep shaping modern data infrastructure.
Category · 4 papers · 2 articles
Case studies
CAP, BASE, harvest/yield — the trade-off frameworks engineers actually reach for.
Papers
4 foundational papers
The CAP Theorem
A production milestone from 2000 whose ideas keep shaping modern data infrastructure.
BASE: an Acid Alternative
A production milestone from 2008 whose ideas keep shaping modern data infrastructure.
Eventually Consistent
A production milestone from 2008 whose ideas keep shaping modern data infrastructure.
Blog articles
2 essays
A Practical Guide to Database Migration Patterns at Scale
Migrating a production database — relational to NoSQL, or between NoSQL engines — is one of the riskiest operations in distributed systems engineering. This guide walks through the dual-write, backfill, and shadow-traffi...
10 min read
Interview: Chaos Engineering for Distributed Databases
We interviewed a fictional staff site reliability engineer who has run chaos engineering programs at two Fortune 500 fintechs. This interview covers how deliberate fault injection tests the same trade-offs formalized by t...
12 min read