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It is a pun on this song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWNaR-rxAic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWNaR-rxAic

• acqq 11y ago
  Apart from author being obviously inspired by the song I admit I don't see any connection or anything worth naming that "the pun." Maybe it's just me.
  • chipsy 11y ago
    Making a phone call is an asynchronous event, and as the song suggests, sometimes you give someone your number but they never call back. With any distributed system in real world conditions, a similar situation arises where a request doesn't get handled or is lost along the way. </explainer>
    • acqq 11y ago
      So he uses the phrase instead of "distributed systems?" (shrug)
  • lmm 11y ago
    It's explained at the top of the original post: https://aphyr.com/posts/281-call-me-maybe-carly-rae-jepsen-and-the-perils-of-network-partitions https://aphyr.com/posts/281-call-me-maybe-carly-rae-jepsen-a...