Reminds me of Lamport's quip: A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable

Reminds me of Lamport's quip: A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable. https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/distributed-system.txt https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/distributed-system.tx... Although sure you know about your phone, but I still find the failure mode funny (and I've experienced similar things) The core problem seems to be synchronization of (persistent) state, which Lamport knows something about ...