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Fear No More: Embrace Eventual Consistency
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Summary
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.
Bio
Sean Cribbs is a Software Engineer at Basho Technologies, where he works on Riak, the fault-tolerant, highly-scalable distributed database. Prior to Basho, Sean was a freelance developer and consultant who also managed the development of the open-source Radiant web publishing system. He briefly studied Music Theory after receiving degrees in Computer Science and Music from University of Tulsa.
About the conference
Software is changing the world; QCon aims to empower software development by facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in the enterprise software development community; to achieve this, QCon is organized as a practitioner-driven conference designed for people influencing innovation in their teams: team leads, architects, project managers, engineering directors.
Feb 12, 2013