Ask HN: Why are distributed systems so polarizing?

There is an odd gatekeeping duality on tech forums: 1. You’re not a proper engineer if you can’t write scalable, highly available software that scales to infinity. Real engineers write production-grade, robust, fault tolerant, scalable, highly available, observable mission-critical systems. 2. No one actually needs large distributed systems, you’re not google, stop trying to build large scalable systems. One Server […]