[andras_gerlits]

The reason you don't understand why my claims are different from being just another solution with clocks and mutexes is because you haven't actually engaged with the essence of it. I'll give you a hint: the consistency mechanism is decoupled from collision resolution and that makes the consistency ledger both deterministic and inherently non-blocking. I don't want to go into more specific questions around the implementation, but I can tell you with certainty that we provide much better promises around progressing global state and sustained write-latency than anything else and our client-centric consistency guarantees local-only reads.

But this is about the solution, not the science. The science is basically unlimited, its only real restriction is around our budget.

If you want to understand how the client-centric consistency mechanism takes care of these things, I write about it on medium and Twitter all the time.

But again, I don't feel like you owe me your time or attention

[sausagefeet]

I have read everything you've given me. If you really believe in what you're selling then I am absolutely the person to convince because if you can convince me you can convince anyone. All you have done is post links to the same two articles which multiple people have told you don't answer the question they've asked, and your only response is to accuse me of not engaging. C'mon, this is ridiculous. You have several people with their undivided attention and you aren't threading the needle.

[andras_gerlits]

There's a mental leap you need to make before it clicks into place and I can't do it for you. I have several people who understand what I say and why I say it, but I get that this isn't an easy step to make. If you read the essay, you understand how we turn time into data. You also understand how we can construct partial and global hierarchy of orders, how these are both strongly ordered and still move independently and how observers can construct their own consistent view from the data available to them. There's formal proof in the science-paper that we can do consistency all the way to snapshot.

To summarise: we have a consistent system that works via one-way streaming, via redundant channels. Best possible cache-invalidation. Reads are both consistent and locally available. Upper-bound time of writes is predictable and doesn't suffer from blocking. I'm not sure what other improvements anyone could want from such a system, this is the best such systems can ever be. These improvements go well beyond the limits CAP sets out and it basically makes the whole argument moot.