Engineers are building things that rely on other things that rely on other things. There's a point where people don't know what their dependencies are.
That's what a distributed system is: a system in which you can't get your work done because a system you've never heard of has failed. (I had that attributed to Butler Lampson, but searching turns up Leslie Lamport instead)
That's what a distributed system is: a system in which you can't get your work done because a system you've never heard of has failed. (I had that attributed to Butler Lampson, but searching turns up Leslie Lamport instead)