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baldeagle on May 12, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Distributed Systems and the End of the API

TL;DR: APIs have issues with concurrency and latency, amongst others. Use Consistency As Logical Monotonicity (CALM) or Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs) instead. Here is a little about how CRDTs work. btw: speech in NY on the 15th of May.

lstamour on May 12, 2014 [–]

Thanks for the summary. Via Google, ended up at http://www.slideshare.net/jboner/the-road-to-akka-cluster-an... which I've bookmarked to watch at a future date, since I'm new to these concepts.

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