distributed-cluster-lacks-reliable-infrastructure

Status: OUT

The distributed cluster has no reliable foundational infrastructure: membership detection is unreliable in both accuracy (no adaptive thresholds) and propagation (asymmetric convergence rates between membership and data), and ordering infrastructure is broken at every layer (vestigial WAL sequence numbers, conflated event sourcing ID spaces, volatile CDC consumer positions), meaning neither who is in the cluster nor what order things happened can be answered reliably.

Justifications

Both foundational questions for distributed systems — membership and ordering — are independently broken

Depends on (SL): membership-detection-unreliable-in-accuracy-and-propagation, ordering-infrastructure-broken-at-every-layer

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