What do those people mean by "distributed systems"? Are they running a single no...

urthor · on Feb 11, 2022

Distributed system probably isn't precise enough in of itself.

But I was very much thinking of multiple leader distributed systems.

Anecdotal. But dealing with clock errors and multi-leader issues are of far greater complexity than caching data.

Replicas, load balancers, and all the vagaries of single leader systems are not absurdly difficult technical problems.

They're problems that can be solved by a team with a single senior engineer who knows what they're doing.

yakshaving_jgt · on Feb 11, 2022

I'm not taking a position on what would qualify as a distributed system, and neither was that the point of my comment.

I believe that when most people talk about "distributed systems", they're talking about some form of microservices architecture, where components of a single system are arbitrarily separated by network requests for nebulous reasons.