Thermodynamics is the study of energy, disorder, and the stubborn tendency of systems to fall apart.
Sound familiar?
I spent years studying physics before moving into software engineering. For a long time, I kept those two worlds separate. Then I started noticing something uncomfortable: the systems I was building kept obeying the same laws as the ones I used to model.
Not metaphorically. Structurally.
This article isn't a philosophical essay. It's a practical look at four thermodynamic laws and what they actually tell us about designing distributed systems.
