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New article for "Escaping the Singularity: It's Not Your Grandmothers Database Anymore"
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Video of "I'm SO Glad I'm Uncoordinated"
Coordination Is Increasingly Painful... What Can Be Done?
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I’m Probably Less Deterministic than I Used to Be
In my youth, I thought everything had cause and effect like a big clock. In this light, computing made sense. Now, I see that both life and computing…
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ACM Queue paper on Autonomous Computing is now online!
Autonomous Computing: We frequently compute across autonomous boundaries but the implications of the patterns to ensure independence are rarely…
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Videos on Autonomous Computing
Links to presentations on Autonomous Computing: The implications of autonomy in our work.
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Sorry for the delay in blogging...
Been really pretty busy... New things are coming, though!
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Autonomous Computing
It is common to compute across autonomous boundaries. The patterns we use to cope with autonomy are rarely discussed even though they frequently impact…
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Don't Get Stuck in the CON Game (V3)
Consistency, convergence, and confluence are not the same! Eventual consistency and eventual convergence aren’t the same as confluence, either.
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Scattered Thoughts on Distributed Systems
Scattered Thoughts on Distributed Systems
Random ideas about distributed computing, databases, life as software engineer, and other irrelevant things.

Scattered Thoughts on Distributed Systems

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