Reposted by Udi Dahan
Hey #NDCOslo! 👋 Meet the engineers behind Particular Software! @SzymonPobiega @PoornimaNayar @Masternak and Andreas are here. Building a #distributedsystems? Bring your architecture questions. We'd love to talk messaging, event-driven systems, reliability, and real-world trade-offs. #dotnet
![Comic. [Person and person with white hat facing two boxes stacked with $80 price tag and sale tag on each box.] PERSON 1: They want $80 for this? I could make one myself for $10 in parts, an hour of work, a trip to the hardware store, another $30 in parts, another few hours of work, two more trips to the store for $20 more in parts, another hour of work to redo the first hour of work because I messed up, and $80 to buy this when the one I made breaks.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreifdsd32pjwefxji33c5eferlek4o6kkadoosqisb5uatqjmrq4q4q)
![page from material linked upthread, with quotes:
The "Law of the Situation"
"Our job [..] how to devise methods by which we can best discover the order integral to a particular situation."
DYNAMIC
ADMINISTRATION
- Mary Parker Follett
"understand the situation, must see it as a whole, must see the interrelation of all the parts [..] must do more than this. He [sic] must see the evolving situation, the developing situation.
His wisdom, his judgment, is used, not on a situation that is stationary, but on one that is changing all the time."
— Mary Parker Follett, 'The Giving of Orders'
"That's always our problem, not how to get control of people, but how all together we can get control of a situation."
— Mary Parker Follett](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x6y4qbknc3mrsytkcs426i2q/bafkreihhtknid52lhoc562viy5lklxe4m4lzgb2k6bf5oktiqe6zoelngy)
