but have found that only companies at the largest scale want to pursue the distsys approaches that I'm most interested in (e.g., gossip/CRDTs, consensus algorithms, etc.).
Can this be disproven? Are there companies of smaller scale that are attempting to solve these problems?
I would also say, having worked a company of smaller scale trying to solve distsys problems, that they're hard to sell. But the distsys skill set does seem (to me) marketable at the large cloud providers.
There are definitely companies at smaller scale that work on these problems. I would say that the only time it really feels solved to me is if the scale is very large.
Can this be disproven? Are there companies of smaller scale that are attempting to solve these problems?