It's kind of odd that the author should cite Butler Lampson's 1983 paper without mentioning that Lampson produced a greatly expanded version of that paper [1] in 2020, which itself includes a lot on distributed systems design.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2019/09/Hints-and-Principles-v1-full.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2019/0...</a>