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Atomic Rant Redux

June 14, 2010

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My atomic rant has gotten a ton of traffic – more than I forsaw.  Seems atomicity is a hot topic in the web world these days. My guess is increasing user concurrency, coupled with more interactive apps, exposes all sorts of edge cases. Throw in some horizontal scaling/sharding and it gets really nasty really quickly.… [Read more…]

An Atomic Rant

February 18, 2010

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Spoiler: If you’re part of the ADHD generation and want to skip learning and go straight to the punchline, use Redis and redis-objects for all your atomic data needs. Brush Up Your Resume You are probably not handling atomic operations properly in your app, and probably have some nasty lurking race conditions. The worst part… [Read more…]

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