I don’t agree with much in this writing other than that eventual consistency is a bad choice. Distributed systems are hard but in 2024 there are enough known patterns and techniques to make them less icky. Systems built on total ordering are much more tractable than weaker protocols. Mahesh Balakrishnan’s recent paper[0] on the Shared Log abstraction is a great recipe, for example.
As an aside, I’ve never enjoyed the defeatist culture that permeated operations and distributed systems pop culture, which this post seems to re-enforce.
As an aside, I’ve never enjoyed the defeatist culture that permeated operations and distributed systems pop culture, which this post seems to re-enforce.
0 - https://maheshba.bitbucket.io/papers/osr2024.pdf