atomicity

• The principle of atomicity is stated by Wittgenstein in the following terms: ‘Every statement about complexes can be analysed into a statement about their constituent parts, and into those propositions which completely describe the complexes’ ( Tractatus, 2.0201). —  My Philosophical Development
• If we want to get all of the tickets assigned to 'GregWilson', do we use one URL to identify the list of ticket IDs, and then fetch the bodies of the tickets one by one afterward (effectively abandoning atomicity)? —  Planet Python
• In this first half of a two-part article, Appistry engineer Guerry Semones gets you started with the four design principles for writing cloud-ready, multicore friendly code: atomicity, statelessness, idempotence, and parallelism. —  Latest headlines from JavaWorld
• As it says, rdiff-backup does make an effort to recover from different types of errors in different ways, to leave the database in a consistent state in the face of unrecoverable errors, and reverse failed backup sessions (effecting a kind of atomicity between sessions). —  freshmeat.net Releases
• The distributed Slice architecture separates functions typically combined in central file servers, introducing new challenges for failure atomicity. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library

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