Comment by jacquesm

10 years ago

Please turn this comment into a blogpost or a book.

> Bane's rule, you don't understand a distributed computing problem until you can get it to fit on a single machine first.

Excellent :)

You know what, I think I will. It's tied into a bunch of different threads, but if I plan it out, it could make a nice series of posts.

  • It resonates strongly with me because I keep coming across clustered solutions where a single machine with appropriately designed software would work just as well or better.

    Clusters have a habit of becoming their own reason for existence. Looking forward to your article. If you need a proofreader I'm game.

    Scale up, scale out or scale in.