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The application should not manage the network. It should send out a request and expect it to resolve.

If I write down instructions for a human someone can execute them 1000 years from now.

We build lots of things that just work. Software is not special, if all the bits are still there you can run it.

If your application is made of many chunks of code and data stored in as many different places the bits won't be there surprisingly soon.

Ii can be like a book on a shelve if we want.



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