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Re:Tarsnap outage (July 2-3, 2023) postmortem by throwawaaarrgh on Thursday July 27, 2023 @08:40AM (#36892549)
> having to reimplement all the consistency, atomicity, transactions etc. on top.

Did you miss where I said it's read-after-write strongly consistent?

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Re:Tarsnap outage (July 2-3, 2023) postmortem by zetalyrae on Thursday July 27, 2023 @08:41AM (#36892562)
Having those things at the base layer is not the same as having them in higher-level behaviour. This is why God invented SQL transactions.
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Re:Tarsnap outage (July 2-3, 2023) postmortem by mattigames on Thursday July 27, 2023 @10:08AM (#36893778)
I never knew Donald Chamberlin and Raymond Boyce were God, it doesn't sound right but I don't know enough about theology to refute it.
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