No one needs to know about distributed systems until your company wants to send automated emails to customers and someone thinks all requests need retry logic.
That's more in line with how I think about it. All systems are distributed (okay not all), even my nice easy to reason about monoliths have to deal with outside events from various webhooks, or sync records with a customer's ERP, etc, etc.
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No one needs to know about distributed systems until your company wants to send automated emails to customers and someone thinks all requests need retry logic.
That's more in line with how I think about it. All systems are distributed (okay not all), even my nice easy to reason about monoliths have to deal with outside events from various webhooks, or sync records with a customer's ERP, etc, etc.
How would you design such system?