Starbucks Does Not Use Two-Phase Commit

Re:Starbucks Does Not Use Two-Phase Commit by bprater on Monday April 07, 2008 @05:38PM (#157227)

Using Starbucks as an example of async communications is brilliant! I can explain async to everyone I know now. Great article.

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Re:Starbucks Does Not Use Two-Phase Commit by davidcthompson on Monday April 07, 2008 @07:22PM (#157296)

And the idea that not all transactions have to work perfectly for a business to run.

Every Starbucks leaves a few unclaimed drinks ever day, but they are still raking in the cash.

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Re:Starbucks Does Not Use Two-Phase Commit by bsaunder on Tuesday April 08, 2008 @08:16AM (#157781)

I think many enterprise managers have a philosophically hard time with this notion. And for some business models, perhaps they are correct to be concerned. In general, I think async with error correction mechanisms is the way to go.

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