Chapter 4: Challenges and Opportunities in Distributed Computing
Eventual Consistency
The foundational infrastructure of the cloud is built upon the concept of eventual consistency.
A good example of this is Amazon DynamoDB.
CAP Theorem
There is a tradeoff between consistency, availabilty and fault-tolerance.
Amdahl’s Law
There are diminishing returns with parallelization.
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Elasticity
The ability to adapt to a varying workload. You should only pay for what you use. ...
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