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0 pointsconst_cast8mo ago0 comments

I find the opposite story more true: additional complexity in the form of caching early, for a scale that never comes. I've worked on one too many sprawling, distributed systems with too little users to justify it.

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physix8mo ago

"Sprawling distributed systems".

I like that. Sounds like a synonym for "Platform Engineering". :-)

I remember being amazed that lambda architecture was considered a kind of reference, when it looked to me more like a workaround.

We like to build IT cathedrals, until we have to run them.

const_castOP8mo ago

If there's one thing I took away from school, it's that distributed systems are hard. More failure points and much more communication hops. Serialization into deserialization into serialization again over network hops.

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