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Consistency Models (2018)

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Re: Consistency Models (2018)

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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds . . . https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/353571-a-foolish-consistenc... .

> A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds . . .

Didn't quite get the connection here. Care to elaborate? :)

Re: Consistency Models (2018)

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For any tool authors, jepsen is invaluable piece A lot of software in the messaging/storage space has undergone jepsen test and I for one am grateful to Jepsen's author Kyle Kingsbury for his incredible work in setting their expectations correct.

Re: Consistency Models (2018)

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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds . . . https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/353571-a-foolish-consistenc... .

What I thought of immediately!

In the 70s and 80s it was not uncommon to run across a CS paper whose title was a play on some aphorism or poetic quotation. That playfulness is much less common these days.

Re: Consistency Models (2018)

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post #4

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds . . . https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/353571-a-foolish-consistenc... .

> A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds . . . Didn't quite get the connection here. Care to elaborate? :)

In the context of comp-sci, I'd say it applies to requiring a Strict Serializable consistency model merely because it's easier to reason about it, even if some other model would be a better fit to the problem at hand.

Double plus if you use that model because you don't know of the existence of the others.