How to lever­age Atomikos in the cloud

Data con­sis­ten­cy in the cloud is a to­tal­ly dif­fer­ent ball game - as per­fect­ly il­lus­trat­ed by this newslet­ter is­sue from ZapThink. Essen­tial­ly, you have to cope with some form of par­ti­tion tol­er­ance and stale data val­ues in caches. This is usu­al­ly sum­ma­rized as the CAP is­sue (for more de­tails, see the ZapThink post).

Luck­i­ly, the so­lu­tion to the prob­lem can be as sim­ple as out­lined in our so­lu­tion to the CAP prob­lem.

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