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tyingq
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IBM z14 Microprocessor and System Control Design
For workloads where eventually consistent is okay.
It's harder to get mainframe like uptimes for OLTP simultaneously with mainframe like IOPS.
wbl
on Nov 20, 2018
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Banking uses eventual consistency all over the place. Unsurprising given they started with letters going by ship and courier.
segmondy
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Exactly, I think that folks forget that ATMs operate like that, if the network is down ATM doesn't stop working. That's why folk's account can go below $0. Banks have been operating distributed systems with eventual consistency for a very long time.
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It's harder to get mainframe like uptimes for OLTP simultaneously with mainframe like IOPS.