This entire debate reminds me quite strongly of Peter Bailis's talk at MesosCon last year on designing distributed systems to avoid coordination where possible.

This entire debate reminds me quite strongly of Peter Bailis's talk at MesosCon last year on designing distributed systems to avoid coordination where possible. It is a really excellent talk for anyone into this sort of thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYJnWttrC9k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYJnWttrC9k https://mesoscon2015.sched.org/event/3Aot/keynote-silence-is-golden-coordination-avoiding-systems-design-peter-bailis https://mesoscon2015.sched.org/event/3Aot/keynote-silence-is...