> Network Partitions are Rare, Server Failures are Not
Network partitions happen all the time. Sure, the whole "a switch failed and that piece of the network isn't there anymore" doesn't happen a lot, but what does happen a lot is a slow or delayed connection, or a machine going offline for a few seconds.
> Network Partitions are Rare, Server Failures are Not
Network partitions happen all the time. Sure, the whole "a switch failed and that piece of the network isn't there anymore" doesn't happen a lot, but what does happen a lot is a slow or delayed connection, or a machine going offline for a few seconds.