Why these apps are hard

• Rely on parallelism
  • for performance and availability
• Someone must partition data and control for all classes of machines
  • Relational model easier, but still requires care (E.g. Oracle and Teradata programmers)
• Fundamentally harder than normal programming (essence vs accident)
• Add reasoning about faults in the mix
  • What happens when component X fails?

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