Citations

• But it’s fairly clear that the classical multi-hundred thousand square foot proprietary data center is a dinosaur of another age, like mainframes are for most organizations today

  Dion Hinchcliffe

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• We argue that objects that interact in a distributed system need to be dealt with in ways that are intrinsically different from objects that interact in a single address space. These differences are required because distributed systems require that the programmer be aware of latency, have a different model of memory access, and take into account issues of concurrency and partial failure.

  Sun Microsystem 1994

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• Myth: All Engineers only ever work on bridges, and are selected from a small group of people inberd to have high ethics and no capacity for corner cutting. If only software developer could be like that.

  Assaf Arkin

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