In the previous post of this blog series, we discussed why strong consistency across multiple distributed data nodes is a bad idea. In this post, we will discuss why the “strong consistency is needed for business reasons” requirement is void.
Well, of course ACID consistency exists – and it is a good thing that it exists. Thus, feel free to call the post title clickbait … ;)
This blog post is about an observation I made pondering the slow adoption rates of several technologies in IT that I consider being game changers. My claim is:
Standardization is a two-edged sword. It has a value, but it also comes at a price.
This post is about another “evergreen” in IT: The fallacy that only business features have business value.