> Networked software systems generally have completely unknown and unpredictable failure modes. "A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer

> Networked software systems generally have completely unknown and unpredictable failure modes. "A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable." -- Leslie Lamport, 1987 (https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/distributed-system.txt https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/distributed-system.tx...)