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Today\u2019s connected world demands applications that are responsive, always available, and can service a large number of users. However, the task of writing such applications is daunting, even for experienced developers. We propose CScale<\/em>, a programming model that attempts to simplify this task. The objective of CScale<\/em> is to let programmers specify their application\u2019s core logic declaratively without explicitly managing distribution.<\/p>\n

CScale<\/em>applications have simple semantics that simplify reasoning about correctness and enable testing and debugging on the single machine. In turn, the CScale<\/em> runtime manages all aspects of execution of a CScale<\/em>application on large clusters, including deployment, state management (replication and data partitioning) and fault tolerance. CScale<\/em> ensures high availability by using distributed wait-free data structures to manage state. CScale<\/em> does impose some constraints on the kind of operations clients can perform. However, we find that many real-world web applications can be naturally expressed using CScale.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today\u2019s connected world demands applications that are responsive, always available, and can service a large number of users. However, the task of writing such applications is daunting, even for experienced developers. We propose CScale, a programming model that attempts to simplify this task. 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