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I'd like more detail on the "coordinator". Seems all cross-partition transactions need to be serialized into a global ordering (via consensus algorithm?). So why this isn't a bottleneck?
have a question about phantom read issue, i.e. two doctors are oncall for the night, but we have the constraint that at least one is needed to be oncall. If we have two transaction checking whether there is at least 2 doctors oncall, then remove one, seems we could end up with no one oncall with FaunaDB?

If so, seems this violate serializability?

Re:Introducing Stack Overflow Documentation Beta on Friday July 22, 2016 @10:26AM (#12143687)
Very cool. Would be great if three functionality can be supported: transient chat, persistent Q/A and persistent documentation. The same for Stack Overflow. They may make a big profit if business start to use it.
Re:Introducing Stack Overflow Documentation Beta on Friday July 22, 2016 @09:59AM (#12143502)
It would be nice if there is SO for business. Lots of companies have terrible internal documentation, Q/A tools.
Could we include the deepmind atari paper there? Should be interesting to lots of people.