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by kbutler 1028 days ago
I think autotune was saying that software often does shortcut hacks violating some of those principles as an optimization. This can be a topic for research into the tradeoffs (e.g., CAP theorem), but may be more common in non-research-based implementations (e.g., NoSQL databases because ACID is slow/constraining/etc.)