Definitely thought this was about aviation for a moment.

Sort of related. Jepsen and Antithesis recently released a glossary of common terms which is a fantastic reference.

https://jepsen.io/blog/2025-10-20-distsys-glossary

> 3.4 Lazy fsync by Default

Why? Why do some databases do that? To have better performance in benchmarks? It’s not like that it’s ok to do that if you have a better default or at least write a lot about it. But especially when you run stuff in a small cluster you get bitten by stuff like that.

NATS is a fantastic piece of software. But doc’s unpractical and half backed. That’s a shame to be required to retro engineer the software from GitHub to know the auth schemes.