Provenance and Causality in Distributed Systems

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Jessica Kerr. "Provenance and Causality in Distributed Systems." jessitron.com, September 2016. Archived at perma.cc/DTD2-F8ZM

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Provenance and causality in distributed systems – Jessitron

Can you take a piece of data in your system and say what version of code put it in there, based on what messages from other systems? and what information a human viewed before triggering an action?Me neither.Why is this acceptable? (because we're used to it.)We could make this possible. We could trace the provenance…

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