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> The users whose data is lost during these incidents probably wouldn't feel quite so peaceful about it, either. Who says data has been lost? Only if your prot
by Jtsummers 4y ago
> The users whose data is lost during these incidents probably wouldn't feel quite so peaceful about it, either.
Who says data has been lost? Only if your protocol is fire-and-forget with no checking. But then you'd have data loss no matter the language(s) you implemented it in if your system became inundated with requests and crashed.
- evadne 4y agoI think robustness is best managed in layers Databases have WAL -> Systems have task queues The executor itself can fail, if the job is not lost :)