--- title: Worth Reading: Not Just Scale « ipSpace.net blog | daily.dev description: A brief pointer to Marc Brooker's blog post arguing that distributed systems are necessary for reasons beyond just scale. The author uses this as a springboard... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/worth-reading-not-just-scale-ipspace-net-blog-imgwmzokq twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Worth Reading: Not Just Scale « ipSpace.net blog | daily.dev og:description: A brief pointer to Marc Brooker's blog post arguing that distributed systems are necessary for reasons beyond just scale. The author uses this as a springboard... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/worth-reading-not-just-scale-ipspace-net-blog-imgwmzokq og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ImGwmZOkQ.png og:image:alt: Worth Reading: Not Just Scale « ipSpace.net blog 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. # Worth Reading: Not Just Scale « ipSpace.net blog **[ipSpace.net Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/ipspace)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A brief pointer to Marc Brooker's blog post arguing that distributed systems are necessary for reasons beyond just scale. The author uses this as a springboard to warn against centralized control plane architectures, noting that despite being a flawed idea, it keeps resurfacing — a nod to RFC 1925 Rule 11. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Why is everything so scalable?](https://daily.dev/posts/why-is-everything-so-scalable--cyuiyhpbx) · Hacker News · 48 upvotes · 4 comments - [Your Distributed System Is Slower Than a Laptop. 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