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0 pointstptacek4mo ago0 comments

What a weird thing to say. I wrote my first OSPF implementation in 1999. The point is that we noticed the solution we'd settled on owes more to protocols like OSPF than to distributed consensus databases, which are the mainstream solution to this problem. It's not "OMG we just discovered this neat protocol called OSPF". We don't actually run OSPF. We don't even do a graph->tree reduction. We're routing HTTP requests, not packets.

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mosura4mo ago

Look at one of the other comments:

> in case people don't read all the way to the end, the important takeaway is "you simply can't afford to do instant global state distribution"

This is what people saw as the key takeaway. If that takeaway is news to you then I don’t know what you are doing writing distributed systems.

While this message may not be what was intended it was what was broadcast.

akerl_4mo ago

It seems weird to take an inaccurate paraphrase from a commenter and then use it to paint the authors with your desired brush.

mosura4mo ago

Not sure the replies to that comment help the cause at all.

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mosura4mo ago

Look at one of the other comments:

> in case people don't read all the way to the end, the important takeaway is "you simply can't afford to do instant global state distribution"

This is what people saw as the key takeaway. If that takeaway is news to you then I don’t know what you are doing writing distributed systems.

While this message may not be what was intended it was what was broadcast.

akerl_4mo ago

It seems weird to take an inaccurate paraphrase from a commenter and then use it to paint the authors with your desired brush.

mosura4mo ago

Not sure the replies to that comment help the cause at all.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse