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Re:Does Software Understand Complexity? by josteink on Monday July 30, 2018 @09:10AM (#17644147)
> Such as the replacement of HTTP with HTTPS at the protocol level or fiber replacing copper in the physical system of the internet. Those simple systems have (or rather will soon) perish, while the more complex system that emerged from them survives.

Funny you should say that w.r.t. to reliability.

I just got back from vacation today and have just had 2 SSL-related issues I needed to solve, not to mention one related with dependencies on smaller components, which when updated broke my chain of software.

All these would have worked more reliably 1. without HTTPS and 2. if everything were packaged together :)

In short, the simpler solution would clearly be more reliable here.

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Re:Does Software Understand Complexity? by gipp on Monday July 30, 2018 @09:20AM (#17644212)
Sure, but that's your experience as an individual developer on a small component of the system. If we're looking at the health of the system _as a whole_ (of which you, and the work you're doing to solve these issues, are a part), it's completely resilient to this change.
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