8.4 Moving Ahead

In this chapter, we learned about the following:

• rinda_eval as a way of concurrent computing

• PTupleSpace as a persistency layer and its limitations

We learned that there is a huge gap between the ability to persist and for the persistence to be useful. In the case of TupleSpace, just providing persistence isn’t good enough; we need a few more tweaks. What would “persistable process coordination” look like? In the next chapter, you’ll find out about Drip, which is one of my answers to this question.