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Exactly, distributed systems are hard. Very hard. It's an entire field of study. Don't opt for something very, very hard unless you have to.

• tonyarkles 6y ago
  Heh, I have a masters degree focused on distributed systems. My thesis was about tracing and debugging in microservice-style systems. I generally write monoliths, on purpose. The massive overheads and debugging nightmares are not worth it most of the time. Global state still gets pushed out into backend services (redis, postgres) and I can still scale horizontally all day, but there’s no crazy chain of backend interservice HTTP requests to cause no end of chaos :)
  • harpratap 6y ago
    Do you mind if you can link me to your thesis? I am actually looking into tracing systems right now.
    • tonyarkles 6y ago
      Honestly, you're probably better off looking at https://opentracing.io/ https://opentracing.io/. For a bit of context, I started working on my thesis in 2009 when there weren't many commercial tools available for doing this kind of tracing; by time I was done, there were a ton of open source and commercial tools available. Thesis is here: https://harvest.usask.ca/handle/10388/ETD-2015-06-2185 https://harvest.usask.ca/handle/10388/ETD-2015-06-2185