This article: Describes a poor customer experience created by poorly implemented distributed systems. Illustrates the complexity and interconnectedness of the multiple business entities that participate in a single retail transaction. 1140 words, estimated reading...
Consistency and Timeliness of Data in Distributed Computing Introduction This story uses an example of dynamic pricing in the low-cost airlines ticketing industry to show how the consistency and timeliness of data is an essential component of a concurrent system. I’ll...
Introduction This article is about Big Data and Distributed Computing. My goal is to give you the vocabulary to discuss Big Data outcomes in terms of effective Distributed Computing execution, data integrity, and performance bottlenecks. Distributed computing is the...
Thinking in Streams with AWS Kinesis – A High Performance Best Practice for Big Data McKinsey research suggests that “the gap between leaders and laggards in adopting analytics, within and among industry sectors, is growing. We’re seeing the same thing on the...
