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Interesting and salient comment. But > "Software systems tend not to be complicated, not complex, until you start getting into distributed systems." these day
by chrisweekly 5mo ago
Interesting and salient comment. But
> "Software systems tend not to be complicated, not complex, until you start getting into distributed systems."
these days so much software is "distributed systems".
- hosh 5mo agoI don’t know at what threshold a complicated system becomes complex. For example, at a level of scale, Kubernetes start having emergent behavior. On the other hand, it doesn’t take much to produce a complex system. The Boids simulation is a complex adaptive system in the form of a flock, yet each member of the flock concurrently follows only three basic rules.