https://plus.google.com/103389452828130864950/posts/ZZ9wDbLDr3A
"If you don’t work in computers, you probably haven’t spent much time thinking
about how data gets stored on computers or in the cloud. I’m not talking about
the physical ways that hard disks or memory chips work, but about something
that’s both a lot more complex and a lot more understandable than you might
think: if you have a piece of data that many people want to read and edit at
once, like a shared text file, a bank’s records, or the world in a multiplayer
game, how does everyone agree on what’s in the document, and make sure that
nobody overwrites someone else’s work? This is the problem of “distributed
consensus,” and in order to discuss it, we’ll have to discuss bad burritos,
sheep-tyrants, and the imaginary islands of ancient Greece."
A lengthy but clear explanation of distributed systems.
Share and enjoy,
*** Xanni ***
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Andrew Pam
Partner, Glass Wings
http://glasswings.com.au/
