Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment order> There are problems that exist in distributed system environments that do not exist in single-machine environments. Partial failure, concurrency, and latency are three problems that make distributed computing fundamentally different from local computing. IMO this can frame our thinking too much. Concurrency and latency are problems in single systems as well. It would be great to have single systems that handle partial failure, can be updated incrementally, etc. Thinking of 'distributed computing' as a different…
The menu of papers for the associated class, https://heather.miller.am/teaching/cs7680/, looks really rich. The class is from 2016. Looks like the book dates from 2016-2017. My first impression was that this was work in progress ... I'd be curious to see what from this set Adrian Colyer https://blog.acolyer.org/ has already digested. A perhaps interesting follow on would be to see which of these programming models are manifest today across the big cloud services .. or how they have advanced from this…
Great to see Bloom and Lasp mentioned! https://github.com/heathermiller/dist-prog-book/blob/master/...
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 492
- Total comments
- 47
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-01-06 | Programming Models for Distributed Computation | ingve | 4 | 0 |
| 2017-09-30 | Programming Models for Distributed Computation BookFirst breakout | federicoponzi | 103 | 3 |
| 2017-10-06 | Programming Models for Distributed ComputationBest thread | ingve | 209 | 18 |
| 2019-07-16 | Programming Models for Distributed Computing | awa | 2 | 0 |
| 2020-03-27 | Programming Models for Distributed ComputationLatest 20+ point return | simonpure | 174 | 26 |