feedlinks for 2010-02-26
February 26, 2010 | 
co.mments
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"Next to this fundamental tension between availability and consistency, there is also a trade-off between concurrency, performance and consistency. Achieving strict consistency can come at a cost in update or read latency, and may result in lower throughput. Developers should be aware of these trade-offs, as they are not simply an esoteric concept only impacting the internals of the system. Rather, the consistency model of the underlying service will have explicit downstream effects on the developer's application. "
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"Many like eventual consistency because it allows us to scale-out nearly without bound but it does come with a cost in programming model complexity."
February 26, 2010 10:03 AM