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"Six thousand years ago, Sumarians invented writing for transaction processing."... is the first sentence of the "Transaction Processing" book... https://www.am
by keshavmr 1y ago
"Six thousand years ago, Sumarians invented writing for transaction processing."... is the first sentence of the "Transaction Processing" book... https://www.amazon.com/Transaction-Processing-Concepts-Techniques-Management/dp/1558601902 https://www.amazon.com/Transaction-Processing-Concepts-Techn...
- giveita 1y agoWow that is the book to read for legacy systems
- kragen 1y agoNo, it is proposing an ambitious rearchitecture of current systems on new principles which it argues were present in an incomplete form in many existing systems. Since it was written, some of its proposals have been implemented to generally good effect, but by no means all. It's a visionary manifesto for the future, though filled with practical information.