Comment by chrisweekly
18 hours ago
Interesting and salient comment. But
> "Software systems tend not to be complicated, not complex, until you start getting into distributed systems."
these days so much software is "distributed systems".
18 hours ago
Interesting and salient comment. But
> "Software systems tend not to be complicated, not complex, until you start getting into distributed systems."
these days so much software is "distributed systems".
I don’t know at what threshold a complicated system becomes complex.
For example, at a level of scale, Kubernetes start having emergent behavior.
On the other hand, it doesn’t take much to produce a complex system. The Boids simulation is a complex adaptive system in the form of a flock, yet each member of the flock concurrently follows only three basic rules.