On: Starbucks Does Not Use Two-Phase Commit

[davidcthompson]

And the idea that not all transactions have to work perfectly for a business to run.

Every Starbucks leaves a few unclaimed drinks ever day, but they are still raking in the cash.

[bsaunder → davidcthompson]

I think many enterprise managers have a philosophically hard time with this notion. And for some business models, perhaps they are correct to be concerned. In general, I think async with error correction mechanisms is the way to go.