There's a huge operational and engineering cost buried in that statement, which the article is trying to unearth and provide better solutions for.

> 5. Logs should also be distributed, in the sense that you don't ship all your logs to a central location, but rather have each server manage its own logs.

Though it does give you some nice properties, this is counter to a lot of accepted best practice... is there a good distributed log query system? `dsh` doesn't cut it, for the record :)