Several resources for Chas Emerick’s “A comprehensive study of Convergent and Communtative Replicated Data Types” at Papers We Love #4 May 15, 2014.
When the video of Chas’ presentation is posted I will update this post.
See also: Christopher Meiklejohn’s Time Clocks and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System.
Abstract:
Whether you realize it or not, if you’ve built a rich web application in Ember.js, and you’re sending data between clients and a server, you’ve build a distributed system. This talk will discuss the challenges of building such a system, specifically the challenges related to preserving consistency when dealing with concurrent actors. We will begin with a primer on the various types of consistency, covering topics such as eventual consistency and causal consistency, and then move on to discuss recent industrial and academic research that aims to solve some of these problems without synchronization, specifically discussing operational transformations and convergent and commutative replicated data types.