stackyFACTSInstead of building one large application that occasionally fails, modern developers build dozens of tiny interconnected services. Now, when the system crashes, it requires a detective to figure out which micro-component caused the cascading failure.
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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates famously had his sprawling, high-tech sixty-three-million-dollar Washington estate known as Xanadu 2.0 designed and modeled…
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