Section “4.5 Toward a Culture of Safety” is worth reading in and of itself before the entire report. There’s a fantastic opportunity for distributed ledger providers to short circuit all the pain and confusing misery of many open source NoSQL databases and their lack of safety over the past decade, define what safety means, and at least start passively monitoring it.
This is also a clarion call for developers of all kinds of systems: please define safety and liveness! What does your system define as bad and must never do? What does your system define as good and must eventually do? It’s amazing how this report starts and there was ambiguity on the notion of safety of the system vs. clients.
Beside the technical merits, this article is a treasure trove of great quotes.
I like the one about the present tense being understood as future behaviors. Thats… a pretty generous interpretation.
What I don’t understand how Radix authors came up with 1.4mil transactions per second, when the current implementation barely handles tens of them? How does one built the initial prototype, measure and extrapolate something that is several orders of magnitude away from a running system, several years in the making? This is an honest question, I’m really interested in how these estimates are done.
Section “4.5 Toward a Culture of Safety” is worth reading in and of itself before the entire report. There’s a fantastic opportunity for distributed ledger providers to short circuit all the pain and confusing misery of many open source NoSQL databases and their lack of safety over the past decade, define what safety means, and at least start passively monitoring it.
This is also a clarion call for developers of all kinds of systems: please define safety and liveness! What does your system define as bad and must never do? What does your system define as good and must eventually do? It’s amazing how this report starts and there was ambiguity on the notion of safety of the system vs. clients.
Beside the technical merits, this article is a treasure trove of great quotes.
I like the one about the present tense being understood as future behaviors. Thats… a pretty generous interpretation.
What I don’t understand how Radix authors came up with 1.4mil transactions per second, when the current implementation barely handles tens of them? How does one built the initial prototype, measure and extrapolate something that is several orders of magnitude away from a running system, several years in the making? This is an honest question, I’m really interested in how these estimates are done.