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		ori_b on May 10, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Give me back my monolith (2019) Network calls can appear to fail, but actually succeed. Local function calls don't have to deal with byzantine failures[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_fault

staticassertion on May 10, 2022 [–]

Function calls can, of course, fail with side effects. Idempotency is always a desirable property.

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