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by willvarfar 3551 days ago
Very curious: if you have multiple datastores, how do you ensure they are consistent? If you scale sideways, how do you ensure nothing gets lost if there's a partition? Etc?
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Embrace eventual consistency. A good deal of collaborative domains (things involving human decisions) are naturally eventually consistent. Meat computers appear to be particularly good at resolving conflicts and compensating.