Is There a Heuristic for Distributed Systems?

There's a Heuristic I picked up somewhere along the lines that I apply quite frequently Boil it down to what question are you trying to answer? Absolutely and if you can isolate that which is a Lot harder in most cases that should be. Most of the path has laid out before you. Yeah, and you know most data scientists That's what they're supposed to do,. You know even before answering the question try to figure out what is the question you're asking? Things can get really ugly especially right now.