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Nondeterminism
The property that the same input can produce different outputs. Serving and sampling choices can reduce or remove some variation; operational systems still need envelopes for changing context, uncertain evidence, and imperfect judgment.
Discussed in the book
- Chapter 4: Living with Nondeterminism — 4.5 The operating record mentioned 5×
- Chapter 4: Living with Nondeterminism mentioned 2×
- Chapter 4: Living with Nondeterminism — 4.2 The failure envelope mentioned 2×
- Chapter 4: Living with Nondeterminism — 4.3 Topologies and decision records in the wild mentioned 2×
- Chapter 3: What an Orchestrator Orchestrates — 3.11 Deterministic and nondeterministic parts mentioned once
- Chapter 3: What an Orchestrator Orchestrates — 3.12 The permission envelope mentioned once
- Chapter 4: How Orchestration Fails mentioned once
- Chapter 5: Orchestration in Practice — 5.3 Before and after: two ways to change a website mentioned once
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