Distributed systems vocabulary.

I've spent a fair amount of time recently discussing how distributed systems fail and strategies for preventing those failures, and the lack of a shared vocabulary poses a significant barrier to high-bandwidth communication.

Given some murky personal plans to write more in this area for the next bit, I've written up the vocabulary I've found most effective. Hopefully this will be useful in its own right, but at worst I'll use it to avoid repeating boilerplate definitions going forward!

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