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Jooror | 7 months ago

Show me a system for which you believe the audit trail is absolutely correct in every case and I’ll show you a midwit…

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jen20|7 months ago

It is straightfoward to build systems which derive their state from the audit trail instead of building the audit trail in parallel. That is what event sourcing is.

Jooror|7 months ago

TIL, thanks!

I was attempting to emphasize the absurdity of any software system being “absolutely correct at all times”. I don’t believe such a system can exist, at least not in such strong terms.

liveoneggs|7 months ago

I may be dumb but isn't this what a merkle tree does? Or the blockchain sort of does (with 51% confidence?)