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> Networked software systems generally have completely unknown and unpredictable failure modes.

"A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable." -- Leslie Lamport, 1987 (https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/distributed-system.tx...)




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