The distribution rewrite tax
Week one, a 200-line script that works. Week two, it has to run on more machines, and it becomes a project that only answers “on which machine?”.
Here is the article about that rewrite tax, and how Mélodium avoids it: a treatment only talks through its declared inputs and outputs, so the same code runs locally or on another machine. The program can even ask for that machine, send it the work, and release it at the end.
To read on Substack