Re:Distributed Systems Programming Has Stalled
by DaiPlusPlus on Thursday February 27, 2025 @11:58AM
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> I switched from a role working on a distributed system [...] to embedded software which runs on cards in data center racks
Would you agree that, technically (or philosophically?) that both roles involved distributed systems (e.g. the world-wide-web of web-servers and web-browsers exists as a single distributed system) - unless your embedded boxes weren't doing any network IO at all?
...which makes me genuinely curious exactly what your aforementioned distributed-system role was about and what aspects of distributed-computing theory were involved.
Would you agree that, technically (or philosophically?) that both roles involved distributed systems (e.g. the world-wide-web of web-servers and web-browsers exists as a single distributed system) - unless your embedded boxes weren't doing any network IO at all?
...which makes me genuinely curious exactly what your aforementioned distributed-system role was about and what aspects of distributed-computing theory were involved.