scaling-distributed-systems-is-hard.html

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date: 2014-12-06T15:31:00.002+01:00
tags:
- humor
- scalability
title: Scaling Distributed Systems Is Hard
url: /2014/12/scaling-distributed-systems-is-hard/
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<p>Stumbled upon a <ahref="http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?ref=rss&amp;id=2693195">hilarious description of challenges encountered when trying to scale distributed systems</a> (cluster of controllers running centralized control plane comes to mind). </p>
<p>It starts with “<em>If someone tells you that scaling out a distributed system is easy they are either lying or drunk, and possibly both</em>,” and gets better and better. Enjoy!</p>