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Pat Helland and me: How to build stateful distr...

Pat Helland and me: How to build stateful distributed applications that can scale almost infinitely

In 2007, Pat Helland published “Life Beyond Distributed Transactions: An Apostate’s Opinion,” in which he conducts a thought experiment on how to design a distributed database that can scale almost infinitely. While the paper explicitly addresses distributed database design, Sean Allen shows that the ideas are far more widely applicable, particularly in scaling stateful applications. Sean explores some of Helland’s ideas through practical examples from his experience building data processing systems using tools like Apache Storm and, more recently, developing a stateful distributed stream processor at Wallaroo Labs.

Sean T Allen

June 14, 2018
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  1. SEAN T. ALLEN VP OF ENGINEERING AT WALLAROO LABS MEMBER

    OF THE PONY CORE TEAM AUTHOR OF “STORM APPLIED” LOVER OF FRENCH STREET ART @SEANTALLEN @WALLAROOLABS @PONYLANG