Do Distributed Systems they said. It'll be fun they said. - Sara Pellegrini & Milan Savić 

Implementing distributed applications is far from easy. We are all aware of the fallacies of distributed computing (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallaci.... These are not the only challenges that you may encounter when you need to deal with distributed systems.
During the last 4 years, we have been building an event store and a messaging platform that are, by nature, distributed across several machines to be more reliable and scalable. Let's see together what it means to build such a system, how to maintain it in (large variety of our customers') production environments.