New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Why are Distributed Systems so Polarizing?

Ask HN: Why are Distributed Systems so Polarizing?
14 by c0mptonFP | 9 comments on Hacker News.
There is an odd gatekeeping duality on tech forums: 1. You're not a proper engineer if you can't write scalable, highly available software that scales to infinity. Real engineers write production-grade, robust, fault tolerant, scalable, highly available, observable mission-critical systems. 2. No one actually needs large distributed systems, you're not google, stop trying to build large scalable systems. One Server + backup is enough. Everything else is overkill, complexity, resume-driven engineering. I can handle 50k RPS with one beefy bare metal machine, written in Rust. Unless you have 10 million customers, which 99.9% of companies don't have. I'm not sure how to feel about this.

There is an odd gatekeeping duality on tech forums: 1. You're not a proper engineer if you can't write scalable, highly available software that scales to infinity. Real engineers write production-grade, robust, fault tolerant, scalable, highly available, observable mission-critical systems. 2. No one actually needs large distributed systems, you're not google, stop trying to build large scalable systems. One Server + backup is enough. Everything else is overkill, complexity, resume-driven engineering. I can handle 50k RPS with one beefy bare metal machine, written in Rust. Unless you have 10 million customers, which 99.9% of companies don't have. I'm not sure how to feel about this. 9 https://ift.tt/Hh9vtjL 14 Ask HN: Why are Distributed Systems so Polarizing?

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