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Best of 2007

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2007. 2 posts.

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Amazon's Dynamo

Werner Vogels2007cited by 13Databases & Data details

In two weeks we’ll present a paper on the Dynamo technology at SOSP, the prestigious biannual Operating Systems conference. Dynamo is internal technology developed at Amazon to address the need for an incrementally scalable, highly-available key-value storage system. The technology is designed to give its users the…

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Bell Labs and CSP Threads

Russ Cox2007cited by 17Software Engineering details

This page is a slice of the history of concurrent programming, focusing on one particular lineage of Hoare's language of communicating sequential processes (CSP) [1] [1a] . Concurrent programming in this style is interesting for reasons not of efficiency but of clarity. That is, it is a widespread mistake to think…