Re:In Twitter’s early days, only one celebrity could tweet a...
by segmondy on Friday May 25, 2018 @10:26AM
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Ha, I always joke that Twitter is a good example of why one should avoid distributed systems. Every often, you see it showing the wrong number of friends, tweets, likes, etc. I don't care, I suppose some people care about such metrics.
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Re:In Twitter’s early days, only one celebrity could tweet a...
by scarface74 on Friday May 25, 2018 @11:05AM
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That's the essence of the CAP theorem. You can have two of three - consistency, availability, and partition tolerance. Sometimes it makes sense to choose availability over consistency.