Chapter 11 — A Field Recipe for RML: Start Small, Grow It

The Worlds of Distributed Systems — Chapter 11 (Practical Adoption Guide) “Nice theory… but what do we do tomorrow?” After Chapter 10, the worldview may feel right—but you might still be unsure about: where to start, how far is “too much,” and how to talk about this across teams. This chapter is not “more theory.” It’s a recipe / adoption guide for bringing RML into real work: You can’t do everything at once. But you can introduce it gradually—without overhauling the org. 1) Five tiny steps you can start tomorrow These are intentionally small. You can do them as an individual—even without “organizational permission.” 1.1 Say the word “world” once in a conversation In a design review or incident retrospective, ask this one question: “Which world are we talking about—RML-1, RML-2, or RML-3?” It’s OK if nobody has an answer yet. The point is to flip the mental switch: Make “world awareness” part of the discussion. 1.2 Add an RML column to a single backlog list In Jira, Notion, a spreadshe