An under-appreciated and vital component to distributed systems in production is analysis and fitting to the scale of the real problem at hand. This is an area where it’s really easy to under or over-engineer a solution. I’ve yet to see a good treatment of this, and I suspect there may not be a great substitute for experience.
An under-appreciated and vital component to distributed systems in production is analysis and fitting to the scale of the real problem at hand. This is an area where it’s really easy to under or over-engineer a solution. I’ve yet to see a good treatment of this, and I suspect there may not be a great substitute for experience.