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Colby | 9 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 😂 tombstone? And you thought my names were bad lol
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hodlbod | 9 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I didn't invent the name, it's been suggested before
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mleku | 9 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 it's been around for a long time, apache cassandra is the first mention in this wikipedia article, circa 2011 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tombstone_(data_store)
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mleku | 9 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 funny that you think you know about distributed systems and you never heard of tombstones