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Distributed Systems Programming Has Stalled

Over the last decade, we’ve seen great advancements in distributed systems, but the way we program them has seen few fundamental improvements. While we can sometimes abstract away distribution (Spark, Redis, etc.), developers still struggle with challenges like concurrency, fault tolerance, and versioning. There are lots of people (and startups) working on this. But nearly all focus on tooling to help analyze distributed systems written in classic (sequential) programming languages. Tools like J…

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alvinkatojr

alvinkatojr

Interesting article. Bookmarking it for later when my mind is clear.

akinihsan

akinihsan

very interesting

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