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"The beauty of this, though, is that you can always build strong consistency out of eventual consistency (it just requires knowing X amount of peers in advance,
by al2o3cr 12y ago
"The beauty of this, though, is that you can always build strong consistency out of eventual consistency (it just requires knowing X amount of peers in advance, and doing a trivial lock until you've heard back from all of them)"
Sounds like a way to trade A for maybe-C, there - what happens if Godzilla stomps one of the servers you're waiting on?
- marknadal 12y agoYes, you are right. Lol, you get skrewed. That is the danger of globally consistent systems, unless you have slaves to that master that got stomped that can do leader-election to survive the failure.