Mark Burgess

Most-linked posts?

1. Deconstructing the CAP Theorem for CM and DevOps (2013)
   3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2014-06-06
2. The Cyborg Compulsion
   3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-06-08
3. Microservices, the future of society and all that
   3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-10-22
4. Why I stopped caring about peer review, and learned to love the work
   2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-12-11
5. A Theory of Voluntary Cooperation
   2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-06-09
6. On system rollback and totalised fields (2011) [pdf]
   2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-09-05

What Hacker News says?

1. vdm · 2014-03-12

   Exactly. This is a deeper problem than commonly appreciated, and the cfengine author has written at length about that. http://markburgess.org/certainty.html

   Comment linking /certainty.html

   on “Why Puppet, Chef, Ansible aren't good enough”
2. shin_lao · 2015-10-19

   Submitted Deconstructing the CAP Theorem for CM and DevOps (2013) as a story · 33 points

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3. vdm · 2013-11-22

   cfengine's theory: http://markburgess.org/certainty.html Maybe cfengine is the Darcs to ansible's git. Clueful smartos people rave about it.

   Comment linking /certainty.html

   on “Ansible 1.4 released”
4. r4um · 2015-07-17

   Submitted The Cyborg Compulsion as a story · 23 points

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5. atsaloli · 2014-12-11

   Dr. Mark Burgess just blogged "Why I stopped caring about peer review, and learned to love the work". http://markburgess.org/blog_peer.html

   Comment linking /blog_peer.html

   on “Scientific Peer Review Is Broken – Fighting to Fix It with Anonymity”
6. leohonexus · 2021-09-16

   Submitted Promise Theory as a story · 3 points

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7. hosh · 2025-06-09

   There's an entire semi-formal language on promises, called promise theory. This includes promises autonomous agents (humans, back when this was conceived) make for other autonomous agents. Promise Theory was the basis for CFEngine, which spawned Puppet and Chef, but it's applicability is much broader. The kind of promises examined within this article can be described and analyzed by promise theory. The central insig…

   Comment linking /promises.html

   on “Software is about promises”
8. kiyanwang · 2017-11-13

   Submitted Microservices, the future of society and all that as a story · 3 points

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9. shin_lao · 2015-10-18Recommends

   The proof is questionable. Read here: http://markburgess.org/blog_cap.html

   Comment linking /blog_cap.html

   on “The CAP FAQ”
10. justincormack · 2015-01-18

    Submitted SDN: software defined networking or small distributed namespaces? as a story · 3 points

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11. justincormack · 2015-01-23Recommends

    There is an excellent post about why you dont want layer 2 tunnels here http://markburgess.org/blog_broadcast.html

    Comment linking /blog_broadcast.html

    on “LXC container networking deep dive”
12. ot · 2014-06-06

    Submitted Deconstructing the `CAP theorem' for CM and DevOps as a story · 3 points

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13. Dave_Rosenthal · 2014-06-19

    Thanks to mjb for the good list. To it I'll add: http://markburgess.org/blog_cap.html I think I also might write one up myself.

    Comment linking /blog_cap.html

    on “CAP Theorem Explained”
14. tosh · 2025-06-11

    Submitted A Theory of Voluntary Cooperation as a story · 2 points

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15. refset · 2024-03-25

    Submitted FAQs about Promise Theory as a story · 2 points

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16. acqbu · 2022-04-08

    Submitted A short introduction to operating systems (2001) as a story · 2 points

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17. walterbell · 2020-01-30

    Submitted Mark Burgess Treatise on Systems as a story · 2 points

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18. kiyanwang · 2019-06-30

    Submitted From Observability to Significance in Distributed Information Systems [pdf] as a story · 2 points

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19. fanf2 · 2018-08-04

    Submitted On system rollback and totalised fields: An algebraic approach to system change [pdf] as a story · 2 points

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20. shin_lao · 2015-10-18

    Submitted Deconstructing the `CAP Theorem' for CM and DevOps as a story · 2 points

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21. emartinelli · 2015-06-12

    Submitted The Cyborg Compulsion as a story · 2 points

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22. voho · 2014-09-05

    Submitted On system rollback and totalised fields (2011) [pdf] as a story · 2 points

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23. ghosh · 2014-07-23

    Submitted The Promises of DevOps as a story · 2 points

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24. evacchi · 2025-12-10

    Submitted Deconstructing the `CAP theorem' for CM and DevOps as a story · 1 points

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25. blopeur · 2018-01-30

    Submitted Promise theoretical analysis of money as a story · 1 points

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26. megaman22 · 2017-11-30

    Submitted Microservices, the future of society and all that as a story · 1 points

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27. ingve · 2017-10-22

    Submitted Microservices, the future of society, and all that as a story · 1 points

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28. ingve · 2016-11-30

    Submitted Why I stopped caring about peer review, and learned to love the work as a story · 1 points

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29. johndcook · 2015-06-08

    Submitted Why the robots aren't coming in the way you expect as a story · 1 points

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30. zdw · 2014-07-26

    Submitted The Brain Horizon – At what point should an organism become a society? as a story · 1 points

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