Optimism vs Pessimism in Distributed Systems

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Optimism vs Pessimism in Distributed Systems
7 minutes by Marc Brooker

Avoiding coordination is the one fundamental thing that allows us to build distributed systems that out-scale the performance of a single machine. When we build systems that avoid coordinating, we end up building components that make assumptions about what other components are doing.

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