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Whenever I see someone tout the magical properties of their distributed systems, I always want to see a report from Jepsen, which takes their system apart like
by m0zg 8y ago
Whenever I see someone tout the magical properties of their distributed systems, I always want to see a report from Jepsen, which takes their system apart like a rotisserie chicken.
- zzzcpan 8y agoJepsen is about consistency and doesn't address most of the things the paper is focused on, real world production things.
- m0zg 8y agoIn a distributed system consistency _is_ "real world production things", unless you want to lose customer data.
- zzzcpan 8y agoIf only that was true. Consistency is a design constraint, not a production problem. Making things work well in real world in production is the hard part, this is what distributed systems are actually about. And I like that about Aurora, focusing on the hard part.
- sethev 8y agoJepsen has done a good job of showing that a lot of systems that focused on the hard part failed to do the "easy" part.