A recent post, was about "How to Build Your Distributed Database" (1). The word 'monoid' is not used (and the word 'commutative' is even misused for 'associativ

A recent post, was about "How to Build Your Distributed Database" (1). The word 'monoid' is not used (and the word 'commutative' is even misused for 'associative') but this post shows well why monoids matter and how they can be used. (1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9101971 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9101971