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Signals and Threads

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Gord

Gord is a distributed message queue that has really good properties for scalability. It lets you do replication and things like that in a simpler way, but it also has massive downside because it limits the ability to which you can recover. If we gave up on that guarantee, we would be very sad. Okay. That's kind of a tour of what Gord was like when I first came to it. One of the things that you've worked on since then to kind of grow the system and repair some of the problems that were there in the original design as you saw it.

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