Distributed Shared State (position paper)

摘要: Increasingly, Internet-level distributed systems are oriented as much toward information access they computation. From computer-supported collaborative work to peer-to-peer computing, e-commerce, and multi-player games—even web caching Internet chat—applications devote a significant fraction of their code maintaining shared state: that has dynamic content but relatively static structure, is needed at multiple sites. We argue tools automatically manage state have the potential dramatically simplify construction applications and, in important cases, improve performance well. discuss characteristics such must possess, placing them context past on file systems, object software memory. present InterWeave system prototype implementation, its strengths limitations.