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Re:Ask HN: What are good resources to learn system design? by nisa on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @06:32AM (#24764120)
Yes. Also if your foundation is already flaky designed and not well understood turning it into a distributed system likely makes everything more error-prone and more likely to fail.

> The first rule of distributed systems is don't distribute your system until you have an observable reason to.

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Re:Ask HN: What are good resources to learn system design? by throwaway_pdp09 on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @07:07AM (#24764317)
Hah. Well said. Along the same lines:

“You can have a second computer once you’ve shown you know how to use the first one.”

–Paul Barham

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