Kenton Varda​

I started playing with DOs shortly before Kenton Varda (aka @kenton) published his now famous Easy, Fast, Correct — Choose three post which introduced a high-consistency concurrency model via: 1) input gates, 2) output gates, and 3) storage cache. The good news was that this gave us a wonderful new way to build highly-scalable applications. The bad news was that it's such a radical departure from what we are used to doing, that it requires a huge mindset shift to take advantage of.

Over the next few years,