Pragmatic Dictator

I was reading this from Bill which follows on from Joe. And had a couple of thoughts:

1. Google seems to have applied N > 1 to everything, not just storage - that’s pure distributed thinking, not the norm for the majority of software heads.
2. Eventual consistency might be kinda like concurrent programming for most people - i.e. many like to program sequentially and with the certainty that x has been completed immediately, in order and within a known timespan. Concurrency, eventual consistency and friends aren’t terribly amenable to this programming approach and it consequently melts many a brain.
3. We need for a lot more people to understand CAP.

[Note for Bill should he read this: it seems like your comments are broken, I’m seeing server errors when I hit post]

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