Near as I can tell this system/paper/post thing is a hybrid between a database proxy and an (allegedly) strictly serializable log tailer sitting squarely at “CP

Near as I can tell this system/paper/post thing is a hybrid between a database proxy and an (allegedly) strictly serializable log tailer sitting squarely at “CP” in conventional nomenclature, e.g. https://mark-burgess-oslo-mb.medium.com/using-promise-theory-to-solve-the-distributed-consensus-problem-4cc2116f24e1 https://mark-burgess-oslo-mb.medium.com/using-promise-theory... I haven’t done heavyweight distributed systems theory in a few years, and so who knows, maybe @aphyr shows up and Jepsen-stamps this thing, but after reading the paper and going over the commercial website personally I’m a pass. I’m one of about a zillion people on HN who have dealt in petabyte and trillion event days on logs as mundane subsystems for years on end and it’s just almost always: “there’s the lock, didn’t see it right away because of the bespoke nomenclature”. History is replete with misunderstood geniuses who weren’t appreciated because they were so far ahead of everyone else (Galois is my favorite example personally), and we might all end up eating crow over it, but this has a wink and a grin vibe that I’m going to regard as great satire rather than hyperventilating. I suspect the object of the satire would be blockchain.