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I've found the rush to distributed computing when it's not strictly necessary kinda baffling. The costs in complexity are extreme. I can't imagine the median company doing this stuff is actually getting either better uptime or performance out of it—sure, it maybe recovers better if something breaks, maybe if you did everything right and regularly test that stuff (approximately nobody does though), but there's also so…
Distributed or not is a very binary function. If you can run in one large server, great, just write everything in non-distributed fashion. But once you need that second server, everything about your application needs to work in distributed fashion.
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