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senkoyesterday at 1:48 PM0 repliesview on HN

I love this line:

> Stop shipping distributed systems when you meant to ship a feature.

But not in the contex the author meant.

Many people don't realize that when you have a frontend, a backend (several instances, for failover/scaling), a (separate) database, maybe some object store -- you have a distributed system.

A recent article[0] touched on that, although most HN commenters[1] latched on the "go" part. But there's something to avoiding rube goldberg machines where we don't need them.

[0] https://blainsmith.com/articles/just-fucking-use-go/

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48062997