Concur. From working at Basho, one key takeaway with distributed systems is that a hard failure is much easier to remediate than a slow machine. We wanted a da

Concur. From working at Basho, one key takeaway with distributed systems is that a hard failure is much easier to remediate than a slow machine. We wanted a database server to fail hard. Running slowly just caused cascading failures. Of course, in this case you're effectively talking about the entire cluster crashing hard, but that's still easier to cope with than every system responding at a snail's pace.