Distributed transactions

Sat in on a fascinating discussion on distributed transactions, its very clear how most people seem to underestimate at what loads contention starts to happen.

Have been hanging out with redis over the last couple of weeks and its obvious that you can do quite a few things with it! Good stuff antirez…

Read up a couple of things
http://nosqlsummer.org/paper/life-beyond-distributed-transactions
http://redis.io/topics/transactions