Fubaredness Is Contagious

Most folks in the industry are familiar with “distributed applications.” If app components are running on multiple hosts and need to communicate with each other using network, the app is said to be distributed.
Distributed applications are known for complexity of assuring all components are on the same page as to what’s going on around them. [...]

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Water and electricity are two components without which a modern home can’t function well. Both are provided as a utility, and both have strictly defined access points from which they can be consumed – taps for water and outlets for electricity.
But there are also differences. Every child knows that electric shock can cause injury even [...]

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