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Thermodynamics Laws Applied to Microservices Design
A former physicist turned engineer maps four thermodynamic laws to distributed system design. The zeroth law highlights the need for shared references like time and schema. The first law shows that load is conserved, not eliminated, when adding caches or rate limiters.
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The analogy is clever but risks oversimplification; still, the core insight that load and disorder must be explicitly designed for is a valuable reminder for architects.
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