My "Distributed Programming and Data Consistency" Codebits talk slideware

I am finally publishing the slideware for my SAPO Codebits 2009 talk entitled "Distributed Programming and Data Consistency".

I first wanted to complete its notes in order to:

1. Allow its use independently from the talk's video (in Portuguese);
2. Provide enough bibliography / reference material to ease further study on any of the covered issues.

Here it is:

Distributed Programming and Data Consistency w/ Notes

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Codebits 2009

I finally went trough the Codebits experience:

• http://codebits.eu/
  

I ended up having the chance to have a rather complete experience too, not only attending but also by giving a talk and competing in the famous 24 Hour Programming Contest.

Not everything went perfectly, but it was an amazing experience.

Please believe that I don't use the word "amazing" as liberally as those people you often watch on TV. This was really interesting and I want to repeat it next year, if I have the chance.

Pictures:

• I took;
• with the official tag on Flickr;
  
• All codebits at Flickr;
  
• with the official tag from SAPO Fotos.
  

The title of my talk was "Distributed programming and data consistency" and there is a video (Portuguese spoken) here:

• http://codebits.eu/intra/s/session/85
  

The talk mentioned several NoSQL data handling techniques, but the focus was mostly on Data Consistency, CAP and BASE / Eventual Consistency.

After watching me back I just found out how much I have to improve as a speaker. The feeling I have is like:

• The guy which studied the subject and prepared the slides did a good job;
• The guy which presented it must be "a bit" livelier,  have better tempo.

I will try to watch this video again before I do any other talk... but in case it goes offline I took notes too (with all the gory details I am avoiding to mention here). =;o)

In the next days I will prepare a version of the slideware with better notes, which will include the URLs of the most interesting literature I came across about this subject.