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Consistency Models (2018)
- oplav 6y agoI remember reading Doug Terry's "Replicated Data Consistency Explained Through Baseball" in my distributed systems undergrad course which helped me understand some of the models a little better. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/ConsistencyAndBaseballReport.pdf https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
- morninglight 6y agoA foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds . . . https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/353571-a-foolish-consistency-is-the-hobgoblin-of-little-minds-adored https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/353571-a-foolish-consistenc... .
- lsofzz 6y ago> A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds . . . Didn't quite get the connection here. Care to elaborate? :)
- TuringTest 6y agoIn the context of comp-sci, I'd say it applies to requiring a Strict Serializable consistency model merely because it's easier to reason about it, even if some other model would be a better fit to the problem at hand. Double plus if you use that model because you don't know of the existence of the others.
- gumby 6y agoWhat I thought of immediately! In the 70s and 80s it was not uncommon to run across a CS paper whose title was a play on some aphorism or poetic quotation. That playfulness is much less common these days.
- lsofzz 6y agoFor any tool authors, jepsen is invaluable piece <3. A lot of software in the messaging/storage space has undergone jepsen test and I for one am grateful to Jepsen's author Kyle Kingsbury for his incredible work in setting their expectations correct.
- atomicone 6y agoThanks for sharing. Its a shame this wasn't upvoted enough to be on the frontpage for a longer time. I'm glad I read this.