It feels that with none of the distributed programming languages or models that have existed succeeding, that we are still missing something fundamental about the problem.
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Distributed Erlang is a weird one here: it's a concurrent model extended with distribution but doesn't really bring any interesting insight regarding distribution.
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I used to think, and have for many years, that partial failure was the fundamental thing and that's what needed to be surfaced. I'm not sure I believe that anymore, I'm starting to think it's more about uncertainity instead. But, I don't know.
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One thing I do know, is that every one of these systems had some notion of process mobility and therefore had service discovery and routing built in. Instead, we have companies building this for our non-distributed languages, so we know that bit was at least right.
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Process mobility, service discovery, routing... Move no evil, find no evil, attract no evil. It's the Holy Grail...
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