THE VIDEO SHELF · declarative distributed programming
"I See What You Mean" by Peter Alvaro
Peter Alvaro's Strange Loop 2015 talk argues that query languages let you state what you mean, and applies that to distributed programming. It covers Datalog, Dedalus and the Bloom lineage for reasoning about distributed systems.
Why HN readers recommended it
Recommended as a fantastic introduction to declarative and Datalog-based distributed systems and failure modeling.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Strange Loop Conference
- Topic
- declarative distributed programming
- Format
- talk
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 6
- HN mentions in dataset
- 12
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2016–2019
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From the original HN conversations
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For an introduction to Dedalus with less reading, Peter Alvaro's 2015 Strange Loop talk was fantastic. [VIDEO] --- Edit: Actually Chris Granger gave an Eve talk at the same conference. It's interesting to see how Eve has evolved since. [LINK]
roller on Hacker News · 2016-10
In Eve: Programming designed for humansNot anything I’d want to use. The closest is prolog. But at a higher level this is what Eve attempted to do. Eve was built using the semantics of Dedalus which is built from datalog. I highly recommend watching Peter Alvaro’s Strangeloop talk about creating …
alexmingoia on Hacker News · 2019-03
In Ask HN: Datalog as the only language for web programming, logic and databaseThis Strangeloop talk by Peter Alvaro is a good introduction to the thinking behind some of these systems: [VIDEO]
jitl on Hacker News · 2016-01
In BOOM: Berkeley Orders of Magnitude – Declarative Languages And Systems
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