Starbucks Doesn’t Use Two-phase commits

Brent Sordyl — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 13:18:50 +0000

when you place your order, the cashier marks a coffee cup with your order and places it into a queue. This queue is literally a line of coffee cups on top of the espresso machine. The queue decouples the cashier and barista, letting the cashier continue to take orders even when the barista is backed up. It also allows baristas to start servicing the queue if the store gets busy, without impacting the cashier.

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has_many :bugs, :through => :rails: Introducing Cramp

Brent Sordyl — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:00:04 +0000

Cramp is the latest entry on the ruby web frameworks list. However, unlike all the others, Cramp is an asynchronous framework, always running inside EventMachine reactor loop. Cramp isn’t a good fit for most of the web applications out there. However, Cramp is good at holding and working with a large number of open connections. Hence it’ll work great for things like comet, long polling, streaming API or even when your application needs to handle thousands of concurrent connections.
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Starbucks Doesn’t Use Two-phase commits

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