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A comprehensive study of Convergent and Commutative Replicated Data Types - Shapiro et al. 2011 This is the third of five Desert Island Paper choices from Jonas Bonér, and it continues the theme of avoiding coordination overhead in a principled manner whenever you can. As we saw yesterday, there are trade-offs between consistency, failure tolerance,…

Combining static model checking with dynamic enforcement using the Statecall Policy Language - Madhavapeddy 2009 We know that getting distributed systems right is hard, and subtle, 'deep' bugs can lurk in both algorithms and implementations. Can we do better than informal reasoning coupled with some unit and integration tests? Evidence suggests we have to do…

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