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This is a very nice academic theory, but in real life you get half-assed, half-implemented hairballs that suck out your will to live if you have to untangle that.


What are the sequence of events that happen in real life that take us from nice theory to hairballs, that academics fail to foresee?


Most companies severely underestimate the complexities of a distributed system and the work that goes into a truly resilient, scalable setup of this kind.

An infrusctructfre of this sort is meant to solve very hard problems, not to make regular problems much harder.




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