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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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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 60; no. 7; pp. 36 - 40
Main Author: HELLAND, PAT
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Jul2017
Subjects:
Technological innovations
Idempotents
Distributed computing
Computer systems
Computer networks
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary: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.