Comment by Groxx
18 hours ago
You can solve just about any distributed systems problem by accepting latency, but nobody wants to accept latency :)
...despite the vast majority of latency issues being extremely low-hanging fruit, like "maybe don't have tens of megabytes of data required to do first paint on your website" or "hey maybe have an index in that database?".
Well, yeah, but the people that create the issues typically solve them by just corrupting the crap out of app state and adding manual ops procedures.