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distributed systems
- Presumed Abort
A resolver on a closed-system habitat must decide the fate of a woman caught between two ledgers when the coordinator overseeing her transfer to a starship is destroyed mid-transaction, leaving both sides locked in an unresolvable promise.
- At Least Once
A blameless post-incident review of a next-of-kin notification service dissects the morning it told a daughter of her father's death twice — once correctly, once again forty-one hours later — and finds that the fault was never a component, but the impossibility of exactly-once delivery for a sentence like that one.