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Not the first HN thread to have this happen: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23599427 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23599427 Come for the distribut
by libraryofbabel 6y ago
Not the first HN thread to have this happen: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23599427 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23599427
Come for the distributed, replicated, partitioned log. Stay for the existential angst, sinister bureaucracy, and paranoia in the face of the absurd.
- whoisburbansky 6y agoRealistically, aren't they the same thing in the end? Can you have the former without truly feeling the latter?
- libraryofbabel 6y agoThe defining characteristics of distributed systems are random failure and unreliable communication. So yes. Sounds pretty Kafkaesque to me. (Or Byzantine.) Distributed consensus in particular strikes me as a problem quite worthy of The Castle or The Trial.
- inopinatus 6y agoback in the day we combined the two and called it Usenet.
- 082349872349872 6y agoDoes https://olduse.net https://olduse.net still work for anyone else?
- ritter2a 6y agoI consider it a fun little game to guess for each mention of "Kafka" in a HN title, whether it means the author or the software. Definitely not trivial, since this time, I would have guessed "Kafka in Pieces" to be an introduction to the software, component by component.
- danpeddle 6y agoIf there is something out there which is this introduction, would love to read it!