Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by Aperocky 134 days ago
An awesome article (if only we remove "functional programmers", feel like they are unfairly called out), hit close to home on operations and pull up a lot of (painful) memories.

Fundamentally - all your system after a certain scale becomes distributed systems, accuracy on a local level is usually not where systemic risks are coming from. A distributed system of fully accurate and correct local programs can implode or explode. Migration, compatibility and system stability are surprisingly dependent on engineer experience till this day.