I Love Technical Debt

I’m pretty sure we all know what technical debt is, attributed to Ward Cunningham in 1992, it basically states that there is no free lunch. But I love it. It makes us ship things quickly, validate them then refine them later. But it comes with a condition…

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System Models in Distributed Systems

The foundation of every algorithm in a distributed system is on what kind of underlining hardware system it will execute on. In practice, nodes (physical or virtual machines) and communication links between them (the physical network layer), can behave in a variety of ways. So for an algorithm to be correct, we need to assume what properties the underlining systems will have.

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