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by yccs27 264 days ago
In other words, Google sacrifices availability/latency here - they don't accept the request until they can be sure it's still available.
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coldtea 264 days ago
They can accept the request (accept as in receive for processing).

They just can't send the acknowledgement of "succesfully booked" yet.

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