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I think that's just unfair. Synchronous system finishes a task, tries to change state, power goes out, system is in an inconsistent state. If you think you can fix this with a couple of write-ahead logs and a consistency checker, good luck! That's how you sound.


> If you think you can fix this with a couple of write-ahead logs and a consistency checker, good luck! That's how you sound.

I'm literally saying it can't be fixed with a simple solution, in the parent comment and other comments, so I'm not sure where you get the idea that I'm saying it can.

Dealing with inconsistent states from failures in a distributed system is solvable but it's not simple unfortunately. It's not even simple to describe why.


I don't think you are reading the response correctly. Software is affected badly from power outages or sigkills whether you have queues or not.




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