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Re:Give me back my monolith (2019) by ori_b on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @04:19PM (#31332139)
Network calls can appear to fail, but actually succeed.

Local function calls don't have to deal with byzantine failures[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_fault

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Re:Give me back my monolith (2019) by staticassertion on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @04:31PM (#31332280)
Function calls can, of course, fail with side effects. Idempotency is always a desirable property.
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