https://blog.nelhage.com/post/end-to-end-principle/

Back when I was an undergraduate, as part of a class called “Computer Systems Engineering”, we read numerous classic papers of systems design. I enjoyed and learned a great deal from many of these papers, but one that paper that has stuck with me in particular was Saltzer et al’s “End-to-End Arguments in Systems Design”. The paper is a very general tract on systems design – it does explore several examples of concrete systems or applications, but it ultimately expounds upon the end-to-end principle as a perspective or design heuristic that can apply to virtually any system design.

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