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by jsyolo 1031 days ago
They tried really hard to not use a distributed SQL database.
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venantius 1031 days ago
Because it’s not a great fit for an event driven architecture.
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adampk 1031 days ago
Yes it would be very hard to make a bad technology choice when you thought through the whole system
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tadfisher 1030 days ago
As long as your balance is eventually consistent, what's the harm? ;)
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lifty 1030 days ago
They specifically mention why they went with FoundationDB, and that is because it's strictly serializable.
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