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| | bravenewgeek.com
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| | If there's one unifying theme of this blog, it's thatdistributed systems are riddled with trade-offs. Specifically, with distributed messaging, you cannot have exactly-once delivery. However, messaging trade-offs don't stop at delivery semantics. I want to talk about what I mean by this and explain why many developers often have the wrong mindset when it comes to building distributed applications. The natural tendency is to build distributed systems as if they aren't distributed at all-assuming data consistency, reliable messaging, and predictability. It's much easier to reason about, but it's also blatantlymisleading.
| | henrikwarne.com
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| | What a great book Designing Data-Intensive Applications is! It covers databases and distributed systems in clear language, great detail and without any fluff. I particularly like that the author Martin Kleppmann knows the theory very well, but also seems to have a lot of practical experience of the types of systems he describes. There is...
| | programmingisterrible.com
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| | How do you cut a monolith in half? It depends. The problem with distributed systems, is that no matter what the question is, the answer is inevitably 'It Depends'. When you cut a larger service apart,...
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| Interneuron, a UK-based service provider to the British National Health Service (NHS), is the first company to formally announce an OpenChain Security Assurance Specification conformant program. This continues their history...