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Can't resist: Overheard in Stanford locker room after Show HN. "He got me" L said of D's dunk over him. That fking D boomed me. L added "He's so good", repeating it four times. L then said he wanted to add D to the list of players he works out with this summer.

Numerous AWS (really early) internal eng talks I saw, hammered home the point that distributed locking / leasing was one of the hardest problems to engineer for, if not the hardest, often quoting Chubby and Paxos Made Live papers.

Today, if I were to need a form of distributed co-ordination, I'd reach for Durable Objects to see if it fits my needs.