--- title: The Problem with Lying is Keeping Track of All the Lies description: The post discusses the challenges of lying and keeping track of lies, drawing parallels to weak isolation in programming and its impact on productivity. It... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-problem-with-lying-is-keeping-track-of-all-the-lies-x95gyx2aw twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The Problem with Lying is Keeping Track of All the Lies | daily.dev og:description: The post discusses the challenges of lying and keeping track of lies, drawing parallels to weak isolation in programming and its impact on productivity. It... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-problem-with-lying-is-keeping-track-of-all-the-lies-x95gyx2aw og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/X95gyx2AW.png og:image:alt: The Problem with Lying is Keeping Track of All the Lies og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The Problem with Lying is Keeping Track of All the Lies **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 6 min read · 11 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The post discusses the challenges of lying and keeping track of lies, drawing parallels to weak isolation in programming and its impact on productivity. It explores the concept of database consistency and the importance of strong isolation. The post also touches on the difficulties of achieving strict serializability in stream processing. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#architecture](https://daily.dev/tags/architecture), [#database](https://daily.dev/tags/database), [#distributed-systems](https://daily.dev/tags/distributed-systems) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/the-problem-with-lying-is-keeping-track-of-all-the-lies-x95gyx2aw) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"The Problem with Lying is Keeping Track of All the Lies","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-problem-with-lying-is-keeping-track-of-all-the-lies-x95gyx2aw","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-problem-with-lying-is-keeping-track-of-all-the-lies-x95gyx2aw"},"datePublished":"2024-06-06T23:33:54.428Z","dateModified":"2024-11-16T02:18:41.332Z","description":"The post discusses the challenges of lying and keeping track of lies, drawing parallels to weak isolation in programming and its impact on productivity. It...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/a8edb80d39fb9e85a1e6f5c9831d9ce0?_a=AQAEuiZ","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/a8edb80d39fb9e85a1e6f5c9831d9ce0?_a=AQAEuiZ","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Hacker News","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Hacker News","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/hn","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/hn"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-problem-with-lying-is-keeping-track-of-all-the-lies-x95gyx2aw","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":11},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"architecture,database,distributed-systems","timeRequired":"PT6M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Hacker News","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/hn"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"The Problem with Lying is Keeping Track of All the Lies"}]} ```