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Jim Gray, Turing laureate, on transactions and what settlement requires

Transactions, and the discipline underneath settlement

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Turing Award laureate for foundational work on database transaction processing — the ACID properties that made reliable distributed transactions possible. At Microsoft Research during Jonathan Hare's time there. Lost at sea in 2007.

His result is upstream of everything in this architecture that involves settlement: a system that attributes and settles contribution at scale is a transaction system before it is anything else.

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