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Re:Are We in the Middle of a Programming Bubble? by joshuamorton on Monday January 21, 2019 @02:24PM (#18962815)
This predates the formulation of the cap theorem by ~15 years, so I doubt it contains everything relevant to a modern distributed database.
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Re:Are We in the Middle of a Programming Bubble? by eropple on Monday January 21, 2019 @03:26PM (#18963319)
It's before my time, but I'm pretty sure people had at least an intuitive understanding of what partitioning does to a datastore before Eric Brewer wrote it down.
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