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I run a distributed system on AWS infrastructure. It's still distributed by all common usage of the word.

• GoblinSlayer 7y ago
  If your system goes down together with Amazon, it's not distributed, it just occupies several machines - a farm.
  • xboxnolifes 7y ago
    If your system goes down together with (the Earth|DNS Routing|ISPs), it's not distributed, it just occupies several machines - a farm.
  • callalex 7y ago
    Yes but a Farm Systems Engineer is a very different job than a Distributed Systems Engineer.
    • solotronics 7y ago
      lol. I work down at the Cloud Farm.