Great articles/videos/... on non-ACID (distributed) systems? ("Eventually Consistent" etc.)

Question

I'll start with these - IMO brilliant - articles:

• Base: An Acid Alternative - by Dan Pritchett (eBay), 2008
• Eventually Consistent (- Revisited) - by Werner Vogels (Amazon), 2008
• Brewer's conjecture and the feasibility of consistent, available, partition-tolerant web services (non-free) - by Seth Gilbert, Nancy Lnych (MIT), 2002

I'm interested in more articles on distributed systems, where ACID can't deliver the necessary scalability/availability anymore (or even, where ACID can still deliver in extreme cases).

The articles should focus on the practical side (even though I like maths).

One thing I'd find especially interesting: Which rules of thumb / design patterns / ... can be derived from non-ACID architectures?

Answer 1

There is an excellent speech (not an article) by Gregor Hohpe "Programming the Cloud". There is an answer for your last question.

Answer 2

There is a few presentations on InfoQ on this topic:

• Embracing Concurrency at Scale by Justin Sheehy
• Availability & Consistency by Werner Vogels

And don't forget the paper about Amazon Dynamo:

Dynamo: Amazon’s Highly Available Key-value Store

Answer 3

• Is the NoSQL Meeting Announcing the End of the RDBMS Era?

• Randy Shoup Discusses the eBay Architecture

• Scalability Best Practices: Lessons from eBay

• Drop ACID and think about data

• Digg and Reddit Have Joined the NoSQL Camp

• NoSQL in the Enterprise

• NoSQL: If Only It Was That Easy

• Embracing Concurrency At Scale

• Availability & Consistency

• Breaking the Relational Chains