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Like modern web apps, start-ups are distributed systems

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I’ve been thinking about distributed systemsa lot lately. While the last decent code I wrote was in Logo, it suddenly dawned on me that I deal with a particular type of distributed system every day: start-ups. Let’s examine a few of the similarities.

Modern web-scale applications like Google,(s goog) Twitter, Netflix,(s nflx) LinkedIn,(s lknd) etc. are implemented as distributed systems as opposed to single monolithic codebases.

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Really solid blog post. Definitely agree with this. IMO, this model will help start-ups and future companies succeed.
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