The irony of distributed systems is that data loss is really easy but deleting data is surprisingly hard

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Jay Kreps. "The irony of distributed systems is that data loss is really easy but deleting data is surprisingly hard." x.com, March 2015. Archived at perma.cc/7RRZ-V7B7

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