(i work at motherduck) over my career i’ve seen countless cases where the complexity of a distributed system introduces as many (or more) reliability concerns

(i work at motherduck) over my career i’ve seen countless cases where the complexity of a distributed system introduces as many (or more) reliability concerns as it solves. when everything works well, it can be beautiful. but when things go wrong, they can quickly become a cascading mess of hard-to-debug issues.