Not really, he talks about HTTP which wasn't really designed for that purpose. There are plenty of protocols that were.
Does this actually have anything to add that isn't covered in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacies_of_Distributed_Comput... , if so then I'll read further.
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two paragraphs later he addresses that point, calling that support limited in current api designs
Not really, he talks about HTTP which wasn't really designed for that purpose. There are plenty of protocols that were. Does this actually have anything to add that isn't covered in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacies_of_Distributed_Comput... , if so then I'll read further.
It has some very interesting stuff about CRDTs, which is definitely worth a look.