The Low End Theory
- Ruthlessly leverage disruptions in the system
- Lower coordination costs through layer stripping
- Favour participation over control
- Temper the human factor to encourage adoption
The End-to-End Principle in networks is another incarnation of the Low
End Theory.
Functions placed at low levels of a system may be redundant or of
little value when compared with the cost of providing them at that low
level.
The Low End Theory is the lesson of Moore's Law in the data
center or Jim Gray's Distributed Computing Economics.
- Google's strategy
- Cheap hardware
- Exploit Moore's Law
- Software to implement redundancy
- human fallibility
- hardware reliability