Spread [was: Books on writing distributed systems]

[Tomas Doran]

On 26 Mar 2008, at 13:41, Steve Purkis wrote:
> On Mar 26, 2008, at 10:59, Mark Blackman wrote:
>>
>> On 25 Mar 2008, at 20:03, Simon Wistow wrote:
>>> Additionally, are there any libraries out there that generically  
>>> do this
>>> sort of thing i.e have a binary blob of data that's kept in sync  
>>> between
>>> n>1 machines?
>>
>> http://www.spreadconcepts.com/publications.html
>
> We were considering using spread as a storage layer for Zimki last  
> year, but never got the chance to try it.  Has anybody had any good/ 
> bad experiences with it?

I've heard a lot of bad things about it from a number of camps,  
especially if used for logging type applications - but I haven't had  
the pain inflicted on me personally..

Cheers
Tom