Talk: Advancing Distributed Systems, by Eric Brewer
Talk: Advancing Distributed Systems, by Eric Brewer (vimeo.com)
He begins with a useful history lesson, putting the development of distributed systems into perspective from two distinct views—databases and operating systems—showing NoSQL and SQL have a longer history than most imagine. He also offers some promising directions in which they can learn from each other.
A fascinating lecture on computer science, built upon his experience teaching a combined internals course on operating system & relational databases. I was lucky enough to catch Eric’s keynote live, streamed from the RICON conference (thanks Basho et al).