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[AI summary] A technical article introduces 'invariant confluence' (I-confluence), a property that determines when database consistency can be achieved without coordination or synchronous communication, leading to significant performance improvements in distributed systems.
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While working on speeding up a Python extension written in C++, I needed a queue to distribute work among threads, and possibly to gather their results. What I had in mind was something akin to Pyt...
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For folks who care about what's possible in distributed computing: Peter Alvaro and I wrote an introduction to the CALM Theorem and subsequent work that is now up on arXiv. The CALM Theorem formally characterizes the class of programs that can achieve distributed consistency without the use of coordination. I spent a good fraction of...
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