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The Art of Immutable Architecture: Theory and Practice of Data Management in Distributed Systems
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The Art of Immutable Architecture: Theory and Practice of Data Management in Distributed Systems

by Michael L. Perry
July 2020
Intermediate to advanced
435 pages
11h 23m
English
Apress
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© Michael L. Perry 2020
M. L. PerryThe Art of Immutable Architecturehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5955-9_1

1. Why Immutable Architecture

Michael L. Perry1 
(1)
Allen, TX, USA
 

Distributed systems are hard.

Most of us have used a website to buy a product. You might have seen a purchase page that contains a warning do not click submit twice! Maybe you’ve used a site that simply disables the buy button after you click it. The authors of that site have run up against one of the hard problems of distributed systems and did not know how to solve it. They abdicated the responsibility of preventing duplicate charges to the consumer.

Maybe you’ve used a mobile application on a train. The train enters a tunnel just as you save some data. The mobile app spins ...

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