Distributed Transactions

While I don’t really want to turn this into a linkblog style site, I find myself posting my second link of the night. This article by Gregor Hohpe contains a great analogy for distributed, loosely coupled systems which is close to home for me ATM since I’m currently working out the architecture for just such a system.


2 Responses to “Distributed Transactions”  

  1. 1 Ian M. Jones

    Wah, that’s freaky, I read that article just last night in “The Best Software Writing I: Selected and Introduced by Joel Spolsky”.

    Don’t tell me that’s how you discovered it too, that would be way too unreal!

  2. 2 Gordon Robertson

    Yes, well kind of. I’ve watched the book developing in the JOS forums and I’ve bookmarked the introduction page. Every so often I pick a title from the list of articles and google for it. Yeah, I know it’s cheap, but then so’s a book which is simply a collection of freely available articles.