Re:Slack outage: Connectivity issues affecting all workspaces
by mmt on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @07:33PM
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Although I agree with your premise, I think the delivery takes away from your point a bit.
Specifically, you risk people piling on that rsync isn't good enough in the modern world and referencing the comment criticizing Dropbox as being little more than an rsync replacement [1].
Of course, the specific tool one uses is irrelevant. The data synchronization problem may not be well solved, but it has been very well studied, with a remarkable number of good-enough options.
So, no, there isn't just one "sync" button, as the parent comment snarkily suggested, but there may be two, one where you might lose the last N seconds of chat (perhaps temporarily) and another where you lose the ability to chat entirely for those N seconds.
[1] Although it had other criticisms, such as monetization, which are, naturally, ignored.
Specifically, you risk people piling on that rsync isn't good enough in the modern world and referencing the comment criticizing Dropbox as being little more than an rsync replacement [1].
Of course, the specific tool one uses is irrelevant. The data synchronization problem may not be well solved, but it has been very well studied, with a remarkable number of good-enough options.
So, no, there isn't just one "sync" button, as the parent comment snarkily suggested, but there may be two, one where you might lose the last N seconds of chat (perhaps temporarily) and another where you lose the ability to chat entirely for those N seconds.
[1] Although it had other criticisms, such as monetization, which are, naturally, ignored.