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Think Twice before Dropping ACID and Throw Your CAP Away
Andrew Gregović discusses ACID and CAP, the questions to ask when starting a new project and choosing its database in order to make an informed decision.
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Exploiting Loopholes in CAP
Michael Nygard discusses several loopholes in the CAP theorem that can be used to engineer practical, real-world systems with desirable features.
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Fear No More: Embrace Eventual Consistency
Sean Cribbs compares ACID with BASE, explaining the virtues and tradeoffs of eventually consistent systems and what developers should know in order to feel comfortable working with EC systems.
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Building a Reliable Data Store
Jeremy Edberg presents the data stores used by Netflix and Reddit, some of the best practices and lessons for surviving outages.
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Exploiting Loopholes in CAP
Michael Nygard explores some of the available loopholes in the CAP theorem helping architects to engineer distributed systems that meet their needs.
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Acknowledging CAP at the Root -- in the Domain Model
Eric Evans discusses three DDD patterns helping embedding CAP tradeoffs inside the domain model: Aggregates, Domain Events and Bounded Contexts.
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NoSQL: Past, Present, Future
Eric Brewer takes a look at NoSQL’s history and considers what should be done so the current NoSQL solutions to evolve in order to address the full range of the application needs.