Distributed Transactions are dead - Sergey Bykov

Distributed Transactions are dead, long live distributed transactions! As "we all know", distributed transactions pretty much died with the advent of the Internet. Developers of cloud services have learned to cope with eventually consistent data stores and the Event Souring paradigm. But what to do when "eventual" is not enough? Orleans never shied away from questioning conventional wisdom. It pioneered the Virtual Actor Model that offered a compelling alternative, especially for building scalable distributed applications, to the prevailing at the time view of actors. Support for scalable distributed transactions is one of the latest innovations in Orleans that challenges popular misconceptions about them. Slides and more information: https://www.reactivesummit.org/2018/s...