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Re:Viruses Can Scatter Their Genes Among Cells and Reassemble by pjettter on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @02:22PM (#19983946)
I like mimetics.

I'm not a distributed database expert.

But I'm wondering: is this analogous to sharding? Not really, I guess. Eventual consistency? Not really, I guess.

Is it: sharding + replication + "ordering" => Eventual consistency?

What do we have in tech that behaves like this?

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Re:Viruses Can Scatter Their Genes Among Cells and Reassemble by JakeKalstad on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @02:35PM (#19984094)
The way p2p torrents work to some degree? One node can draw on surrounding nodes to retrieve smaller portions of the full data.
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