February 2016 archive

Marc Shapiro Invited talk at Grenoble, 3 March 2016

https://www.liglab.fr/evenements/keynote-speeches/marc-shapiro-just-right-consistency Consistency —ensuring that data items distributed over remote computers agree with each other— is a fundamental issue of distributed computing. No single consistency model is appropriate for all uses: strong consistency requires lots of synchronisation, which has availability and performance issues; weak consistency performs and scales better but is error-prone. Indeed, the famous “CAP” …

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