The thing is, people throw around the word ‘impossible’ a little too easily. There are certain things that are impossible (telling a slow machine from a dead machine, for example). And there are certain problems that are trivially possible. And there is a big swath of problems in between that are possible depending on what trade-offs you’re wiling to make. Scalyr seems to have discovered Lambda Architecture on their own.
The thing is, people throw around the word ‘impossible’ a little too easily. There are certain things that are impossible (telling a slow machine from a dead machine, for example). And there are certain problems that are trivially possible. And there is a big swath of problems in between that are possible depending on what trade-offs you’re wiling to make. Scalyr seems to have discovered Lambda Architecture on their own.