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Re:Building With Workers KV, a Fast Distributed Key-Value Store by aaaaaaaaaab on Friday September 28, 2018 @10:23AM (#18093583)
They write it in the description: eventual consistency with global consistency within 10 sec.
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Re:Building With Workers KV, a Fast Distributed Key-Value Store by zzzcpan on Friday September 28, 2018 @10:36AM (#18093702)
That's rather vague definition. And is also wrong. They obviously can't guarantee global consistency within 10 sec, as that would require consensus which is impossible to guarantee in bounded time and they probably don't even use any consensus algorithm at all, as that would be pointless for a CDN.
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Re:Building With Workers KV, a Fast Distributed Key-Value Store by kentonv on Friday September 28, 2018 @10:45AM (#18093782)
Yes, in the presences of a network partition, propagation can take arbitrarily long. But, that would be classified as an outage. Knowing the typical non-outage delay is useful.
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