Pat Helland, who has been working on building data management systems since 1978, talks to host Akshay Manchale about Data Management at scale with Microservices. Pat talks about trends in storage and computing, state management, immutable data storage, and idempotent computation. He also talks about various ways to look at data — “inside” vs. “outside,” “prescriptive” vs. “descriptive” data that is “right” and “right now” with some clever real world analogies and examples.
Show Notes
Related Links
- Pat Helland on Failure and Resilience in Distributed Systems
- SE-Radio Episode 344: Pat Helland on Web Scale
- Mind your state for your state of mind
- Immutability Changes Everything
- Idempotence is not a medical condition
- The I’s Have It
- Life Beyond Distributed Transactions: An Apostate’s Opinion
- The Power of Babble
- Write Amplification v/s Read Perspiration
SE Radio theme: “Broken Reality” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0)
Really enjoyed this one! Good insights. One remark in terms of the explanation of “idem potent”: Both are Latin words. “Idem” means “the same” and “potens” is “capable”. For computer science it most likely comes from “Idempotency” in Maths. See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idempotence
Awesome episode. Keep up the good work