Yup. Did my masters thesis on Jepsen tests and there's a huge discrepancy on how most people perceive databases, consistency models and their actual behavior. Also just driver implementations, cluster configuration and other oddities that might bring chaos and disaster out of nowhere.
Redpanda talk was pretty interesting. Apparently some documentation on certain client settings is flat out wrong regarding consistency guarantees, IIRC written by Confluent.
is your thesis available to read? Jepsen and these concepts for databases are certainly very different from those for kafa, as we heard from Kyle during the Jepsen testing for Redpanda. Someone needs to write about those perceptions!
