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93 memes about DistributedSystems

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Watching Kubernetes Self-Heal Into a Node Outage
Containerization OnCall ProductionIssues DevOps SRE

Watching Kubernetes Self-Heal Into a Node Outage

Kubernetes ContainerOrchestration
Galaxy Brain Hardcodes a Beef UUID Forever
CS Fundamentals CodeQuality Databases

Galaxy Brain Hardcodes a Beef UUID Forever

DeveloperHumor TechMeme
Three Engineers and a Database for Safe UUIDs
DesignPatterns Architecture DistributedSystems CS Fundamentals

Three Engineers and a Database for Safe UUIDs

OverEngineering MicroserviceArchitecture
The Tower of Data Babel
Infrastructure Cloud DistributedSystems

The Tower of Data Babel

Datacenter Infrastructure
The One Giant Toy Box
SMBC: Consciousness Is Just a Bandwidth Issue With 4,000 Agents
AI ML DistributedSystems Communication

SMBC: Consciousness Is Just a Bandwidth Issue With 4,000 Agents

PhilosophicalHumor ExistentialHumor
The Class Spokesperson
Jeff Dean, MapReduce Inventor, Asks 'What Is DSA Hard?'
Interviews DistributedSystems Google

Jeff Dean, MapReduce Inventor, Asks 'What Is DSA Hard?'

Mapreduce TechnicalInterviews
Asking the Chef About the Cooking Exam
Me Designing Data-Intensive Applications: Monkey Riding a Pig Into Ruin
DistributedSystems DesignPatterns Architecture BigData

Me Designing Data-Intensive Applications: Monkey Riding a Pig Into Ruin

DistributedSystems SystemDesign
Holding On for Dear Life
xkcd Standardizes Counting Out Loud Before Doing Things in Sync
DistributedSystems Communication DevCommunities

xkcd Standardizes Counting Out Loud Before Doing Things in Sync

ISOStandard TechStandard
When Do We Jump?
Multi-Region Fallback From 2010 Finally Triggers, Engineers Rejoice
DistributedSystems OnCall ProductionIssues Infrastructure

Multi-Region Fallback From 2010 Finally Triggers, Engineers Rejoice

DistributedSystems DisasterRecovery
The Spare Tire That Actually Inflated
Multiagent Systems Depicted as Human Centipede Nightmare
AI ML DesignPatterns Architecture DistributedSystems

Multiagent Systems Depicted as Human Centipede Nightmare

Llm AIHypeVsReality
AWS: You Were Supposed to End the Single Point of Failure
AWS Cloud Infrastructure

AWS: You Were Supposed to End the Single Point of Failure

AWS HighAvailability
Squidward Meme Illustrating Race Condition with Wrong Execution Order
Bugs Backend DistributedSystems

Squidward Meme Illustrating Race Condition with Wrong Execution Order

RaceConditions ConcurrencyPatterns
Shoes Before Socks
Microservices Fan vs. Monolith Enjoyer: An Architectural Showdown
DesignPatterns Architecture IndustryTrends Hype DistributedSystems

Microservices Fan vs. Monolith Enjoyer: An Architectural Showdown

MicroserviceArchitecture MonolithArchitecture
One Cook vs Many Cooks
The terrifying silence of a non-idempotent API
API Backend DistributedSystems

The terrifying silence of a non-idempotent API

API ApplicationProgrammingInterface APIDesignBestPractices
Candy Machine Surprise
The All-Too-Common Justification for Microservices
DesignPatterns Architecture IndustryTrends Hype TechDebt

The All-Too-Common Justification for Microservices

MicroserviceArchitecture Microservices
Follow the Leader
DDIA Gets a Chianti Pairing
DataEngineering DistributedSystems Databases

DDIA Gets a Chianti Pairing

DataEngineering DistributedSystems
Fancy Study Snack
A Tale of Two Protocols: TCP's Orderly Process vs. UDP's Casual Data Handling
Networking CS Fundamentals DistributedSystems

A Tale of Two Protocols: TCP's Orderly Process vs. UDP's Casual Data Handling

Tcp Networking
The Careful Messenger vs. The Casual Messenger
The Perils of NFS over UDP on High-Speed Links
Networking DistributedSystems Bugs

The Perils of NFS over UDP on High-Speed Links

DataIntegrity NetworkEngineering
Mixed-Up Puzzle Pieces
The Cursed Knowledge Hidden in Legacy Man Pages
Networking DistributedSystems Bugs

The Cursed Knowledge Hidden in Legacy Man Pages

Documentation DocumentationWoes
Scary Fine Print
Bitcoin Genesis Block: A 15-Year-Old Timestamp of Financial Rebellion
Blockchain TechHistory Cryptography

Bitcoin Genesis Block: A 15-Year-Old Timestamp of Financial Rebellion

Bitcoin Blockchain
Secret Note
The Exponentially Complex Trolley Problem of AI Safety
AI ML CS Fundamentals DesignPatterns Architecture

The Exponentially Complex Trolley Problem of AI Safety

AISafetyResearch AI
Can’t Save Everyone
The CAP Theorem of Developer Life: Choose Two - Productivity, Punctuality, or Personal Hygiene
DistributedSystems DeveloperProductivity Meetings

The CAP Theorem of Developer Life: Choose Two - Productivity, Punctuality, or Personal Hygiene

DistributedSystems DeveloperHumor
Can’t Have It All
DNS: Two Hard Problems In One
Networking CS Fundamentals Backend

DNS: Two Hard Problems In One

DNS DomainNameSystem CacheInvalidation
Old Address Stickers
Penetration Testing the Divine: A DDoS Attack on Prayer Service
Security Networking DevCommunities

Penetration Testing the Divine: A DDoS Attack on Prayer Service

DDoS DistributedDenialOfService DoS DenialOfService
When “just one JSON” morphs into a full-blown microservice spaghetti
API DistributedSystems DesignPatterns Architecture

When “just one JSON” morphs into a full-blown microservice spaghetti

API ApplicationProgrammingInterface DistributedSystems
The Overkill Delivery Service
When your data center literally belongs in a cathedral of compute
Infrastructure Performance DistributedSystems

When your data center literally belongs in a cathedral of compute

Datacenter Infrastructure
Tech Temple
The CAP Theorem's Eventually Useful Guarantees
DistributedSystems CS Fundamentals DesignPatterns Architecture

The CAP Theorem's Eventually Useful Guarantees

CAPTheorem EventualConsistency
Eventually Means Later
Microservices Meet the Monolith Counterargument
DesignPatterns Architecture DistributedSystems Backend

Microservices Meet the Monolith Counterargument

Microservices MonolithArchitecture
One Big Box
Timezone Issues: So Bad They Violate Causality
Bugs Debugging Troubleshooting Backend

Timezone Issues: So Bad They Violate Causality

TimeZonesAreHard BugsInSoftware
Can’t Catch a Break
The Sleep 'n' Pray Concurrency Model
Bugs DistributedSystems CodeQuality

The Sleep 'n' Pray Concurrency Model

DeveloperHumor CodingHumor
Waiting and Hoping