Meeting: Distributed Systems
No slides this time around, but it was still an excellent discussion. The topic this time was dealing with state and consistency in distributed systems, focusing on talks by Christopher Meiklejohn.
Topics discussed:
- Functional Geekery Episode 32 - Christopher Meiklejohn
- The false assumptions of Client-Server architecture
- Last writer wins consistency model
- Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
- Distributed Systems for Fun and Profit
- A comprehensive study of Convergent and Commutative Replicated Data Types
- "Distributed, Eventually Consistent Computations" by Christopher Meiklejohn (video)