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Can’t stress this enough. Thank you for mentioning it!! In my career I’ve encountered many engineers unfamiliar with this concept when designing a distribute
by exogenousdata 2y ago
Can’t stress this enough. Thank you for mentioning it!! In my career I’ve encountered many engineers unfamiliar with this concept when designing a distributed system.
- ignoramous 2y ago> I’ve encountered many engineers unfamiliar tbf, Distributed Systems aren't exactly easy nor common, and each of us either learn from others, or learn it the hard way. For example, and I don't mean to put anyone on the spot, Cloudflare blogged they'd hit an impossibly novel Byzantine failure, when it turned out to be something that was "common knowledge": https://blog.cloudflare.com/a-byzantine-failure-in-the-real-world/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/a-byzantine-failure-in-the-real-... / https://archive.md/LK8FI https://archive.md/LK8FI
- danenania 2y agoYeah it’s very common since it becomes an issue as soon as you get sockets involved in an app. A lot of frontend engineers unknowingly end up in distributed system land like this. Coordinating clients can be just as much a distributed systems challenge as coordinating servers—often it’s harder.