Bastion – A Highly-Available Distributed Fault-Tolerant Runtime for Rust

Re:Bastion – A Highly-Available Distributed Fault-Tolerant R... by jspaetzel on Monday March 01, 2021 @04:13PM (#26308488)

This sounds cool. I don't understand why it's named Bastion though, that name already has pretty specific technical meaning to me which seems unrelated.

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Re:Bastion – A Highly-Available Distributed Fault-Tolerant R... by ibraheemdev on Monday March 01, 2021 @04:15PM (#26308510)

Bastion means "a well-fortified position." I think this is meant to highlight the fault-toleranceness of the runtime.

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Re:Bastion – A Highly-Available Distributed Fault-Tolerant R... by andrewflnr on Monday March 01, 2021 @07:45PM (#26310533)

But if it's an Erlang-style system, it gets its resilience by acting less like a solid fortress and more like a guerilla force that melts away when you attack it. :D So I'd still have to say Bastion is an odd name.

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