Ryan Knight Interview
summary
Argues that strong consistency is more than read-after-write and must include compare-and-swap, so consistency belongs in the database layer not the application; reports a production system with a solid architecture that fails because it lacks observability and monitoring so root causes are invisible; claims scaling is chiefly a human problem of organizing microservices teams rather than a pure technical issue; notes functional programming is reaching mainstream adoption.
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