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>> The (highly cost-ineffective) Right Thing is to invest enough in network infrastructure that there are no network partitions. And... It’s no longer a distri
by heavenlyblue 7y ago
>> The (highly cost-ineffective) Right Thing is to invest enough in network infrastructure that there are no network partitions.
And... It’s no longer a distributed system.
- inimino 7y agoSomething can still be distributed in space without us having to assume that the network can fail.
- wolf550e 7y agoIt's still a distributed system if clients connect to the closest server, speed of light latency between servers exists, and the system deals with consensus between servers, even if the design assumes network partitions never happen.