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by xapata 3408 days ago
> It's marketing.

No, it's engineering. It's the recognition that if periods of unavailability are too small and too rare to be noticed, then the system behavior is indistinguishable from an "available" system in the sense of the CAP theorem.

It's like the "Retina" display you're probably reading from. There are pixels, you just can't see them.