Getting Real About Distributed System ReliabilityI am the co-founder of Confluent and also the co-creator of Apache Kafka as well as various other open source projects. There is a lot of hype around distributed data systems, some of it justified. It’s true that the internet has centralized a lot of computation onto services like Google, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn (my own employer), and other large web sites. It’s true that this centralization p
