Eventually Consistent.

The article discusses the design and construction of reliable distributed systems on a worldwide scale, examining the trade-offs made in building such systems around the issues of consistency and availability. The requirements placed on Amazon.com's cloud computing infrastructure services include se...

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Publicado en:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 52; no. 1; pp. 40 - 45
Autor principal:	VOGELS, WERNER
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Association for Computing Machinery Jan2009
Materias:	Distributed computing Data warehousing Backup processing alternatives in electronic data processing Cloud computing Amazon.com Inc. Ubiquitous computing Management University faculty Employees
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Sumario:	The article discusses the design and construction of reliable distributed systems on a worldwide scale, examining the trade-offs made in building such systems around the issues of consistency and availability. The requirements placed on Amazon.com's cloud computing infrastructure services include security and scalability while serving millions of customers. Other topics include challenges due to trillions of requests, the ubiquitous use of replication techniques to guarantee consistent performance, and abstractions related to large-scale data replication.