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A Rust Framework to Simplify Distributed Systems
A Rust Framework to Simplify Distributed Systems
Building software that runs across many machines is notoriously difficult. Developers have to grapple with problems such as race conditions, partial failures, and message ordering. Notably, one category of distributed software has largely escaped these burdens. A distributed database can spread a single query across thousands of machines, handling the coordination, failure recovery, and ordering internally. This raises a natural question of why general-purpose distributed programming can’t feel the same way.
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