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Side Effects, Front and Center.

The article discusses unintended consequences of computational innovations, particularly those involving too much information (TMI). Topics include the notion of ACID (atomic, consistent, isolated, and durable) transactions, the notion of idempotence in relation to distributed computing, and the imp...

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Publicado en:Communications of the ACM Vol. 60; no. 7; pp. 36 - 40
Autor principal: HELLAND, PAT
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Association for Computing Machinery Jul2017
Materias:
Technological innovations
Idempotents
Distributed computing
Computer systems
Computer networks
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Sumario:The article discusses unintended consequences of computational innovations, particularly those involving too much information (TMI). Topics include the notion of ACID (atomic, consistent, isolated, and durable) transactions, the notion of idempotence in relation to distributed computing, and the impacts of unintended effects on computing systems.