Lecture

Transactions

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Description

This lecture delves into the concept of transactions, exploring their elegance in structuring stateful systems. The instructor discusses the practicality and cleanliness of transactions, delving into traditional database transactions and alternative implementations like transactional memory. The lecture covers Jim Gray's seminal paper on transactions, emphasizing the importance of atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability (ACID) properties. The instructor explains how transactions work, the challenges they pose, and the trade-offs between optimistic and pessimistic concurrency. The lecture also touches on the limitations of transactional memory, such as the impact of transaction duration, handling I/O operations, and debugging complexities. Overall, the lecture provides a comprehensive overview of transactions in computing.

Instructor

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Ontological neighbourhood

Computer engineering

High-performance computing: Distributed computing

Databases: Relational databases

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