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davidcthompson
on April 7, 2008
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Starbucks Does Not Use Two-Phase Commit
And the idea that not all transactions have to work perfectly for a business to run.
Every Starbucks leaves a few unclaimed drinks ever day, but they are still raking in the cash.
bsaunder
on April 8, 2008
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I think many enterprise managers have a philosophically hard time with this notion. And for some business models, perhaps they are correct to be concerned. In general, I think async with error correction mechanisms is the way to go.
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Every Starbucks leaves a few unclaimed drinks ever day, but they are still raking in the cash.