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Re:Understanding Google Zanzibar and Why it Shines at Buildi... by noah_buddy on Sunday June 25, 2023 @04:50PM (#36472455)
Why is it lazy? Seems like leveraging a tool Google built for distributed systems specifically for consistency guarantees.
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Re:Understanding Google Zanzibar and Why it Shines at Buildi... by sunk1st on Sunday June 25, 2023 @06:51PM (#36473479)
As I understood it from context, the word lazy was being used to complain that the reference to Spanner wasn’t in-lined.
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Re:Understanding Google Zanzibar and Why it Shines at Buildi... by susscrofa on Monday June 26, 2023 @05:35PM (#36486204)
Right. As someone who's not a systems guru, I would love some insight if/how the consistency guarantees can be achieved using common distributed database approaches.
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