Engineering
Rethinking state sync in distributed systems
Most teams reach for eventual consistency without fully understanding the tradeoffs. The gap between theory and production is where systems fail.
The core problem: clock skew compounds across nodes in ways unit tests never surface. By the time you see it, you're debugging a race condition at 2am.
good ref for Q4 arch review
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Compare with Jepsen findings — their clock skew numbers differ
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