--- title: The demon of the gaps | daily.dev description: Modern software systems use decomposition, abstraction, and microservice architectures to manage complexity — but these same strategies become liabilities... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-demon-of-the-gaps-rfbajp0ww twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The demon of the gaps | daily.dev og:description: Modern software systems use decomposition, abstraction, and microservice architectures to manage complexity — but these same strategies become liabilities... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-demon-of-the-gaps-rfbajp0ww og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/rfBaJp0Ww.png og:image:alt: The demon of the gaps og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The demon of the gaps **[Surfing Complexity](https://daily.dev/sources/surfingcomplexity)** · 4 min read · 13 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Modern software systems use decomposition, abstraction, and microservice architectures to manage complexity — but these same strategies become liabilities during complex incidents. When failures span multiple components with unexpected interactions, no single engineer understands the whole system, turning an analysis-optimized architecture into a synthesis problem. Incident responders must collectively reconstruct how the system functions in real time, yet this coordination work is rarely studied or supported. The post argues this is a fundamentally hard coordination problem that even the best humans struggle with, and AI SRE tools are unlikely to solve it either. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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