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Re:Are We in the Middle of a Programming Bubble? by RhodesianHunter on Monday January 21, 2019 @08:35PM (#18965258)
I can assure you that the major theories behind modern big distributed databases were not written in decades old books.
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Re:Are We in the Middle of a Programming Bubble? by kerng on Monday January 21, 2019 @11:29PM (#18965997)
Yeah, distributed database systems from the late 70s, early 80s actually had certain transactional guarantees that some of these "modern big distributed systems" you refer to still dont have.
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Re:Are We in the Middle of a Programming Bubble? by sedachv on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @01:26PM (#18970803)
Yes, some of those theories were also applied in decades old systems. Look up Tandem Computers and Teradata.
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