A beam of light takes roughly 1/7 of a second to travel around the world. So the hard limit would be 1/14 to get a packet halfway around the planet (approx 71 ms) which actually is pretty fast!
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I bet if we look back at the first 50 years of bridge building (which is about how long we've been building software, give or take) we'd see similar mistakes being made to how we are trying to build software.
I've given up trying to think of an anecdote comparing the Tacoma Narrows to a deployment environment. There has to be someone who can finish this post for me?
Anecdote or not, other engineering disciplines still have teething problems centuries down the line.
Of course, software engineering isn't helped by the fact that so many people masquerade as software 'engineers' when in fact they are completely unqualified and should be thought of as equivalent to the bridge builder's labourer. With the software engineer being the architect.
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I've given up trying to think of an anecdote comparing the Tacoma Narrows to a deployment environment. There has to be someone who can finish this post for me?
Anecdote or not, other engineering disciplines still have teething problems centuries down the line. Of course, software engineering isn't helped by the fact that so many people masquerade as software 'engineers' when in fact they are completely unqualified and should be thought of as equivalent to the bridge builder's labourer. With the software engineer being the architect.