Whilst not making light of the complexity of the field.
Distributed systems, it honestly is just a toy for the tech monopolies.
Nobody I've ever heard of in a company with less than a billion dollars of revenue is bothering.
Who ever thought "let's build a software program which has major issues dealing with clock errors!"
My day job doing distributed compute at a "main street" company is/was completely eaten by "why the hell would you even, just throw Postgres on a 64 core 2TB RAM machine with replication."
Distributed systems, it honestly is just a toy for the tech monopolies.
Nobody I've ever heard of in a company with less than a billion dollars of revenue is bothering.
Who ever thought "let's build a software program which has major issues dealing with clock errors!"
My day job doing distributed compute at a "main street" company is/was completely eaten by "why the hell would you even, just throw Postgres on a 64 core 2TB RAM machine with replication."
Why indeed.