Confused yet by Meltdown and Spectre? It’s hard not to be! So what should or can you do about it?

Earlier in this series we discussed what Distributed Systems are and why we use them, and we controversially defined a DistSys as any system divided over more than one physical location and using decoupling and copying to improve performance. Then we realised that’s most systems!

However, when we explicitly talk about building DistSys we usually mean creating a system at big enough scale that we need to start worrying about the problems with.

No, this isn't the worst Christmas cracker joke ever.

This short series of posts comes out of a project I did with Diptanu Choudary, lots of discussions with other expert DistSys practitioners here at CS and elsewhere and my own background as an early engineer in the field.

Everyone has an opinion. This is mine. You are very much allowed to have a different one, as long as you think about it.

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