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by jude- 1820 days ago
It's extremely hard to reason about the global emergent behavior of a complex system than the isolated behavior of a small component.
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Jeff_Brown 1820 days ago
I don't think it's a function of complexity per se, but determinism. This is why Haskellers love the IO monad. Used well, it lets you quarantine IO to a thin top-level layer, below which all functions are pure and easy to unit test.
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jude- 1819 days ago
Distributed systems are anything but deterministic.
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