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Great overview with lots of links. I came across quite a few concepts I barely know - or know them in a different context. I did trip hard over this sentence:

• spooneybarger 9y ago
  Did you figure it out? If not, I assume from what I read that the author is referring to many systems keeping replicas of data on different members of the cluster. By keeping replicas, you increase the amount of data stored by can survive the failure of any given node.
  • mandeepj 9y ago
    Microsoft's Service Fabric is an open source distributed system build on the same principles. Check it out - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/service-fabric/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/service-fabric/
    • kingbirdy 9y ago
      Poorly named, as it conflicts with the excellent Python based provisioning tool: http://www.fabfile.org/ http://www.fabfile.org/
      • Erwin 9y ago
        "Fabric" has had a generic distributed meaning way before the Python tool: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabric_computing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabric_computing Microsoft's full product name is "Azure Service Fabric" which properly disambiguates it rather than staking a claim to a common network-related single English word as you claim the Python fabric library does.
        • kingbirdy 9y ago
          Fair enough, TIL
    • polskibus 9y ago
      Is it really open source? Do you have a link?
      • davegardner 9y ago
        Yes it is - https://github.com/Microsoft/service-fabric https://github.com/Microsoft/service-fabric
        • polskibus 9y ago
          That's recent! Great to see it! However Windows build tools are not ready yet as per readme, also there are no releases since open sourcing yet.
      • s2g 9y ago
        http://github.com/Microsoft/service-fabric http://github.com/Microsoft/service-fabric