> I'd say that a good amount of this advice also applies to one-box systems. Nothing in "distributed systems" implies any constraint on deployment. The only tr

> I'd say that a good amount of this advice also applies to one-box systems. Nothing in "distributed systems" implies any constraint on deployment. The only trait that's critical to the definition is having different flows of control communicating over a network through message-passing. One very famous example of distributed systems is multiple processes running on the same box communicating over localhost, which happens to be where some people cut their distributed system's teeth.