THE VIDEO SHELF · database transactions
"Transactions: myths, surprises and opportunities" by Martin Kleppmann
Martin Kleppmann's Strange Loop talk on database transactions, covering why they were dropped by NoSQL, their reputation for being slow, and newer algorithms that make serializable transactions perform and scale. It touches on consistency, linearizability and the CAP theorem.
Why HN readers recommended it
Recommended as a compact preview of Kleppmann's data systems material, including from his book on the subject.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Strange Loop Conference
- Topic
- database transactions
- Format
- talk
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2018–2023
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From the original HN conversations
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Rich Hickey - "simple made easy" [LINK] Rob Pike - "concurrency is not parallelism" [LINK] Uncle Bob Martin - "future of programming" [LINK] Martin Kleppmann - "transactions: myths, surprises and opportunities" [VIDEO] Simon Brown - "software architecture vs code" [LINK]
geksilla on Hacker News · 2018-04
In Ask HN: What is your favourite tech talk?It's great. Incredibly dense with useful information and it just blows my mind how much knowledge Martin has about the topic. I recommend watching this talk from him to give a little glimpse of the book: [VIDEO] This is just about a little part of …
redisman on Hacker News · 2019-05
In Ask HN: What overlooked class of tools should a self-taught programmer look into
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