justinsheehy

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   by justinsheehy 15y ago

   RiakCS is not open source right now. Parts of it may well be open sourced over time.
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   by justinsheehy 15y ago

   Ha! Very good. The reason it is sometimes worth saying "highly available" is that most people don't know or don't understand the CAP theorem. Also, the A in CAP is one (very strict) definition of availability and not necessarily the one tha
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   by justinsheehy 17y ago

   Lamport's logical clocks work across multiple nodes, but they can lose information about causality. Hence Mattern's extensions to Lamport's work, which introduce the idea of vector clocks.
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   by justinsheehy 17y ago

   It's more like Mattern's expansion of Lamport's logical time. (a lattice, not a total ordering)
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   by justinsheehy 18y ago

   I suppose we are hardly anyone, but we are writing multiple Web applications in Erlang right now, and slowly giving away the tools we build as well. http://blog.therestfulway.com/2008/09/webmachine-is-resource...