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Building Scalable Systems: an Asynchronous Approach
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Summary
Theo Schlossnagle expresses his opinion on Big Data, NoSQL, cloud, system architecture and design, then he discusses the benefit of using asynchronous queues for building scalable systems.
Bio
Theo Schlossnagle is the author of Scalable Internet Architectures (SAMS) and a frequent speaker at worldwide IT conferences. He was the Principal Architect of the Momentum MTA, a new email system. Theo is a member of the IEEE and a senior member of the ACM. He serves on the editorial board of the ACM’s Queue Magazine. You can follow Theo on Twitter as @postwait.
About the conference
The « What's Next » conference will be the biggest Java event ever organized in France as of 2011, gathering the vibrant French community. It will gather all the most important Java experts of the world around various high-level interventions. The goal of this annual conference is to bring the audience the most up-to-date information on the new and emerging technologies around the Java platform.
Sep 21, 2011
Community comments
Messaging Clarification
by Carlus Henry,
Messaging Clarification
by Carlus Henry,
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At about 21:30 into the talk, Theo mentions a step-by-step breakdown of how messaging works. In it, he says that the potential for messages to be lost, is very high. My assumption is that in the setup that is being described, he is not using transactions. Is that the case? If there were transactions being used, wouldn't that guarantee messages to be delivered to the queue?
Thanks in advance.