Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Compensating Transactions: When ACID is too much (Part 2: Non-Transactional Resources)

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Introduction In part one in this series I explained why ACID transactions are not always appropriate. I also introduced compensation-b...
Saturday, May 25, 2013

2PC or 3PC

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"2PC or not 2PC, that is the question". Perhaps if Shakespeare were alive today Hamlet would be asking one of the most popular que...
Friday, May 17, 2013

Compensating Transactions: When ACID is too much (Part 1: Introduction)

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ACID transactions are a useful tool for application developers and can provide very strong guarantees, even in the presence of failures. How...
Monday, May 6, 2013

When you need ACID and can't get it ...

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What happens when you need traditional ACID transactions across your resource managers and they won't behave? By that I mean they're...
Friday, May 3, 2013

Cross posting on banks, ACID and BASE

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Just a cross post that I thought people might be interested in. Caused by a recent article that seemed to get interpreted as banks don'...
Sunday, April 14, 2013

Simplified XTS Context Propagation

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In this blog post I'd like to introduce a new feature from our recent Narayana 5.0.0.M2 release. It was developed by our newest addition...
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Monday, April 8, 2013

API Improvements for Compensation-based Transactions

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In a recent post I talked about API improvements we are introducing for applications that use ACID transactions. In this post I’ll cover wh...