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Comment by robotresearcher

11 hours ago

Every distributed system serves stale data.

You can define away ‘stale’ by picking a consistency model, but look inside the consistency machinery and you will see fresher data you aren’t allowed to have yet.

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fc417fc802  3 hours ago

That's like refusing to use a fridge, insisting on letting your produce gradually spoil on the counter because "all harvested produce is in a state of decay anyway".

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