# Twitter: Charity Majors on distributed systems, complexity, and microservices

- **期号**: SRE Weekly Issue #114（2018-03-18）
- **作者**: Charity Majors
- **链接**: https://twitter.com/mipsytipsy/status/973806469136121856

## 简介

What is the definition of a distributed system, and why are they difficult? I really love the definition in the second tweet.

## 正文

![@mipsytipsy](https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1576759705933819904/iDotz1Gw_normal.jpg)

lately a lot of people seem to think it's fun to point out that "distributed systems" can just mean two nodes and a network.
colloquially, distsys means "the hardest and most interesting thing about this system is its distributedness", i.e. lots of small dynamic components.

[6:22 AM · Mar 14, 2018](https://twitter.com/mipsytipsy/status/973806469136121856)