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Martin Fowler
Unmesh has a few more of his Patterns of Distributed Systems ready to share with the world. In this one he looks at the problem of a large cluster, one that is too large to effectively maintain strong consistency, yet needs to maintain some data in a strongly consistent way. It can do this by using a smaller cluster, which he calls a Consistent Core.
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