<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: s8kur</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=s8kur</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 20:12:29 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=s8kur" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by s8kur in "Cloudflare Meerkat - Globally distributed consensus"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Consensus is one of those areas where the interesting engineering and the number of
people who actually need it are inversely correlated. Most "we need distributed
coordination" turns out to be "we need one writer and a lock," which a single
Postgres hands you for free: advisory locks, SELECT ... FOR UPDATE, SKIP LOCKED for
work distribution. Linearizability without running Raft..<p>The real threshold is multi-region writes on a hard latency budget, and even then a
single-region primary plus accepting cross-region read latency beats eating a
consensus round-trip on every write for a lot of teams. Curious what workload pushed
you past single-primary - usually a better story than the impl itself.</p>
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