About distributed transactions

A couple of articles about distributed transactions and scalability:

  1. Online Event Processing Achieving consistency where distributed transactions have failed [link]
    written by Martin Kleppmann [twitter], Alastair R. Beresford [twitter], and Boerge Svingen [twitter]

  2. Life beyond Distributed Transactions: an Apostate’s Opinion [link]
    written by Pat Helland [twitter]