Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Compensating Transactions: When ACID is too much (Part 3: Cross-Domain Distributed Transactions)

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In part one in this series I explained why ACID transactions are not always appropriate. I also introduced compensation-based transactions ...
Monday, June 3, 2013

Feedback required: When can't you use ACID transactions?

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In recent releases of Narayana, we've been making significant improvements to our support for compensation-based transactions. Along-si...
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'...