What cave diving taught me about distributed systems

What cave diving taught me about distributed systems I've been building backend systems for 14 years. I've also spent a decent chunk of the last decade underwater, mostly in caves. At some point I stopped being surprised by how often the two worlds rhyme. The deeper you go into either, the more you notice the same ideas showing up in different costumes. Here are a few that stuck with me. You plan the dive, then you dive the plan In open water, if something goes wrong, you go up. That's it. The s