This entire debate reminds me quite strongly of Peter Bailis&#x27;s talk at MesosCon last year on designing distributed systems to avoid coordination where possible. It is a really excellent talk for anyone into this sort of thing:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=EYJnWttrC9k" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=EYJnWttrC9k</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mesoscon2015.sched.org&#x2F;event&#x2F;3Aot&#x2F;keynote-silence-is-golden-coordination-avoiding-systems-design-peter-bailis" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mesoscon2015.sched.org&#x2F;event&#x2F;3Aot&#x2F;keynote-silence-is...</a>