I have been thinking on these lines or more specifically; a generalized application of distributed architecture techniques ever since i came across Roman Oberma

I have been thinking on these lines or more specifically; a generalized application of distributed architecture techniques ever since i came across Roman Obermaisser's book; Event-Triggered and Time-Triggered Control Paradigms. and exposure to ideas from the Erlang language/system. From the pov of architecting the structure of the system there are some similarities between Web and Embedded systems but it is at a high abstract level rather than specifics. The key is to understand the difference between Federated (most Web systems) and Integrated (most Embedded systems) and how they directly affect Reliability, Fault-Tolerance, Latency etc. system parameters. It is also the case that due to a low-barrier to entry for Web Development there is a lot of Incidental/Accidental complexity in it which is not the case for Embedded Development (i.e. less forgiving). It would be interesting/educational to do a Commonality-Variability Analysis between the two types of Systems and learn lessons which are more generally applicable.