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> One is that end-to-end system semantics matter much more than the semantics of an individual building block, and sometimes what seems like a very desirable se
by covi 12y ago
> One is that end-to-end system semantics matter much more than the semantics of an individual building block, and sometimes what seems like a very desirable semantic for a building block may end up making the end-to-end problem harder.
This is a wisdom whispered 3 decades ago. The end-to-end argument haunts us again [1]!
[1] END-TO-END ARGUMENTS IN SYSTEM DESIGN http://web.mit.edu/Saltzer/www/publications/endtoend/endtoend.pdf http://web.mit.edu/Saltzer/www/publications/endtoend/endtoen...
- akkartik 12y agoI made a more superficial version of this argument a year ago: http://akkartik.name/post/readable-bad http://akkartik.name/post/readable-bad Edit: "Safety is a characteristic of systems and not of their components" -- http://www.ctlab.org/documents/How%20Complex%20Systems%20Fail.pdf http://www.ctlab.org/documents/How%20Complex%20Systems%20Fai...