Scattered Thoughts on Distributed Systems
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Consistency, convergence, and confluence are not the same! Eventual consistency and eventual convergence aren’t the same as confluence, either.
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Computing across Trust Boundaries Has a Big Impact of How We Work.
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We frequently compute across trust boundaries. The patterns that cope with distrust are rarely discussed even though they impact how we use data and do…
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Technology trends have evolved to provide an abundance of CPU, Memory, Storage, and Networking. Coordination, formerly dirt cheap, has become the preci…
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Technology trends have evolved to provide an abundance of CPU, Memory, Storage, and Networking. Coordination, formerly dirt cheap, has become the preci…
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Should we strive for clarity, bloviation, or casual familiarity in our prose?
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Consistency, convergence, and confluence are NOT the same! Eventual consistency and eventual convergence aren’t the same as confluence, either.
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Consistency, convergence, and confluence are NOT the same! Eventual consistency and eventual convergence aren’t the same as confluence, either.
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Large-scale filtering of data provides serendipitous surprises
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A new paper about how distrusting systems do business work together.
Dec 28, 2020Comment 3Share
Availability is a measure of how often you can ask for work and be happy with its completion
Dec 15, 2020Comment 1Share
How could I miss such a simple thing?
Nov 26, 2020Comment 18Share
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