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Math isn't what's missing, but Mark's post is just a bunch of metaphor and no rigor. At the very least it could go over failure modes and shows how it alleviat
by sausagefeet 3y ago
Math isn't what's missing, but Mark's post is just a bunch of metaphor and no rigor. At the very least it could go over failure modes and shows how it alleviates them but other databases fail.
- andras_gerlits 3y agoWe do you one better. We show how all information can be made redundant via determinism and how that means you can supply multiple copies of them across parallel, redundant channels. My essay talks about this in detail around the latency-mitigation section and the failure-modes part, but these are questions much closer to the actual implementation. Mark discusses the new mental model behind it, I talk about technology. https://itnext.io/how-simple-can-scale-your-sql-beat-cap-and-fulfil-the-promise-of-microservices-5e397cb12e63#7df1 https://itnext.io/how-simple-can-scale-your-sql-beat-cap-and...
- sausagefeet 3y agoThis post has no rigor. "What happens if a node dies? Well another takes its place". Ok, show me. This is hand waving.