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Peter Deutsch's 1994 list of distributed systems fallacies remains relevant but incomplete. A new analysis adds three more fallacies specific to cloud-native and microservices architectures that systems engineers routinely encounter in modern distributed system design.
A detailed technical analysis of the July 2024 CrowdStrike outage identifies at least six systems engineering process failures — from requirements on update safety to verification of content validation logic — that together produced the largest IT outage in history.
Amazon engineers describe how TLA+ formal specification has prevented at least 7 critical data-loss bugs in distributed storage services. The approach is now standard practice for protocol design at AWS, with 200+ engineers trained on the toolchain.