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BerislavLopac on Feb 25, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Famous Laws of Software Development (2017)

There are only two hard problems in distributed systems:

    2. Exactly-once delivery
    1. Guaranteed order of messages
    2. Exactly-once delivery

Source: https://twitter.com/mathiasverraes/status/632260618599403520

noir_lord on Feb 25, 2019 [–]

I like.

> There are only two problems in computer science, naming things, cache invalidation and off by one errors.

I've got to say modern languages with foreach() have been amazing (makes me feel old when I consider a 20 year old widely used language 'modern').

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