> I feel like the author is making a huge omission by not talking about the properties of multi-raft sharded DBs coupled with the TrueTime-like APIs from cloud providers in 2018.
I mean this is all fine and dandy if it works (plus, how do know that it actually works in all the edge cases?), but that's a HUGE amount of complexity. IMO you really need to have a very good reason to even consider anything this complex.
I mean this is all fine and dandy if it works (plus, how do know that it actually works in all the edge cases?), but that's a HUGE amount of complexity. IMO you really need to have a very good reason to even consider anything this complex.