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Realistically, aren't they the same thing in the end? Can you have the former without truly feeling the latter?

The defining characteristics of distributed systems are random failure and unreliable communication. So yes. Sounds pretty Kafkaesque to me. (Or Byzantine.) Distributed consensus in particular strikes me as a problem quite worthy of The Castle or The Trial.

I consider it a fun little game to guess for each mention of "Kafka" in a HN title, whether it means the author or the software. Definitely not trivial, since this time, I would have guessed "Kafka in Pieces" to be an introduction to the software, component by component.

If there is something out there which is this introduction, would love to read it!

back in the day we combined the two and called it Usenet.

Does https://olduse.net still work for anyone else?