Comment by pyrolistical

Comment by pyrolistical 10 months ago

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No, one of the key ideas in distributed systems is the network is unreliable. It’s not bad actors “inside the fort” it’s just that messages get lost sometimes.

Internal switches can fail. There are countless reasons why packets will get lost

lisper 10 months ago

"Inside the fort" is a metaphor for a single server, not anything involving a network.