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"Transactions: myths, surprises and opportunities" by Martin Kleppmann

Strange Loop Conference · 84.4K views · 2015-09-27 · 41:08

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Martin Kleppmann's Strange Loop talk on database transactions, covering why they were dropped by NoSQL, their reputation for being slow, and newer algorithms that make serializable transactions perform and scale. It touches on consistency, linearizability and the CAP theorem.

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Recommended as a compact preview of Kleppmann's data systems material, including from his book on the subject.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2018–2023

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redisman · 2019-05 · Recommendation

It's great. Incredibly dense with useful information and it just blows my mind how much knowledge Martin has about the topic. I recommend watching this talk from him to give a little glimpse of the book: [VIDEO] This is just about a little part of one of the chapters.

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geksilla · 2018-04 · Recommendation

Rich Hickey - "simple made easy" [LINK] Rob Pike - "concurrency is not parallelism" [LINK] Uncle Bob Martin - "future of programming" [LINK] Martin Kleppmann - "transactions: myths, surprises and opportunities" [VIDEO] Simon Brown - "software architecture vs code" [LINK]

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gexaha · 2023-01 · Reference

jepsen.io has a neat diagram of various consistency models - [LINK] also, you can find talks of Martin Kleppmann on youtube about consistency guarantees, e. g., [VIDEO]

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