The document discusses transactional integrity in distributed systems. It covers key concepts like availability, consistency, partitionability, eventual consistency, and how not all workloads require the same level of consistency. Different technologies like NoSQL databases provide different consistency guarantees than traditional databases. The document also credits the sources of photos used.

1. Transactional Integrity in the Web Era
10.20.2005
IBM Impact May 2012

2. Celebrating Downtime
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3. The New Rockstars
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4. Pick Just Two
Eric Brewer, 2000
Partitionability
Availability Consistency
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5. NoSQL
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6. The Transaction
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7. Eventual Consistency?
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8. Not All Workloads Are Created Equal
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9. Credits
Photos:
SF in Cloud – SF Chronicle
Craftsman – A. Davey on Flickr
Forge – Stewart Black on Flickr
Riveting – Encyclopedia of New Zealand
Forage – honestcooking.com
Acid – pea on Flickr
Mainframe – courtesy of IBM
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