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Dominik Tornow
Personal blog · blog.dtornow.comsystemsprogramming
Dominik Tornow's personal blog at blog.dtornow.com covers systems and programming. Since 2023, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “The CAP theorem. The Bad, the Bad, & the Ugly”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's CAP theorem post, which argues that partition tolerance is not optional and that Gilbert and Lynch's definition is unrealistic. Commenters cite it in CAP and consensus discussions.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- The CAP theorem. The Bad, the Bad, & the Ugly5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2024-03-06
What Hacker News says?
https://tqdev.com/2024-the-p-in-cap-is-for-performance is a really interesting take on this as a response to https://blog.dtornow.com/the-cap-theorem.-the-bad-the-bad-th... - essentially, the only way to get CA is if you're willing to say that every request will succeed eventually, but it might take an unbounded amount of time for partitions to heal, and you have to be willing to wait indefinitely for that to happen…
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on “Amazon S3 Adds Put-If-Match (Compare-and-Swap)”Submitted The CAP theorem. The Bad, the Bad, & the Ugly as a story · 101 points
HN discussionThanks for the link. > https://blog.dtornow.com/the-cap-theorem.-the-bad-the-bad-th... Especially: > The “Pick 2 out of 3” interpretation implies that network partitions are optional, something you can opt-in or opt-out of. However, network partitions are inevitable in a realistic system model. Therefore, the ability to tolerate partitions is a non-negotiable requirement, rather than an optional attribute. > CAP req…
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on “Using Promise Theory to solve the distributed consensus problem”Submitted The CAP theorem. The Bad, the Bad, & the Ugly as a story · 5 points
HN discussionWe need to clarify first if we're talking about CAP or real life. CAP requirements are absurd. To quote Dominick Tornow from here: https://blog.dtornow.com/the-cap-theorem.-the-bad-the-bad-th... "Note that Gilbert and Lynch’s definition requires any non-failed nodenot just some non-failed nodeto be able to generate valid responses, even if that node is isolated from other nodes. That is an unnecessary and unrealisti…
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on “Using Promise Theory to solve the distributed consensus problem”Submitted System Models as a story · 1 points
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