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shane's avatar

great post! I like the way you differentiate what's really important about ACID versus what's simply there to flesh out the academic theory (or to fill in a wanted backronym). Oftentimes explanations of programming concepts can be very abstract which is probably correct from an academic perspective, but not too helpful from an industry perspective, so thanks for writing this up. looking forward to the next one

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Phil Liao's avatar

Thank you!

Totally - Academia does a great job of giving you 100% of the theory on a topic, but in industry, you start seeing that the 80/20 rule really dominates.

A small minority of data structures, architectures, and tools can power the majority of needs. In this case, only half of ACID is notable.

Great to have you onboard - I'm excited for next week's post (although I haven't picked what it will be)!

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