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Re:Starbucks Does Not Use Two-Phase Commit by solutionyogi on Wednesday July 28, 2010 @03:05PM (#1555287)
Great article. I think this article was part of 'Best of Software Writing I' by Joel Spolsky.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/BestSoftwareWriting.h...

Re:Starbucks Does Not Use Two-Phase Commit by nreece on Wednesday July 28, 2010 @11:07PM (#1556486)
And here are the links to essays in Best Software Writing I: http://brevity.org/misc/bestswi.html