Comment by physix
2 days 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.
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.