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Re:The software engineering lifecycle: How we built the new ... by Swizec on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @02:03PM (#24495382)
Distributed transactions are a notoriously difficult problem. Unsolvable in theory if I recall.

So a company tht solved it well enough as a backbone tech could be quite valuable on the market

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Re:The software engineering lifecycle: How we built the new ... by Closi on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @06:14PM (#24498623)
I don’t think you can use that to infer that remembering when a user stops a video is an unsolvable problem.

See: multiple ways to skin a cat

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Re:The software engineering lifecycle: How we built the new ... by Dylan16807 on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @07:18PM (#24499211)
Unsolvable during a network partition, you mean? It doesn't matter if a streaming service can't update your position perfectly across multiple locations during something that breaks the internet.
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