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		jbellis on Sept 2, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Scalable ACID Scalaris has supported ACID transactions for years, but it never caught on because at scale you care more about availability than about having transactions: http://twitter.com/Werner/status/1008722501

jhugg on Sept 6, 2010 [–]

If you're counting important things (money, inventory, etc), being up with the wrong answer can be worse than not being up.

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