1. A distributed computing system, comprising: a plurality of first computing platforms, each said first computing platform comprising an interface and first processing resources including a first memory and at least one first processor the first processing resources of the respective first computing platforms being configured to perform operations in response to instructions received over the respective interfaces; and an integration and introspection computing platform comprising second processing resources including a second memory and at least one second processor, the integration and introspection computing platform being located remote from the first computing platforms, the second processing resources being configured to control the integration and introspection computing platform to at least: send first instructions to the first computing platforms to cause the first computing platforms to perform first operations in accordance with orchestration logic; send second instructions to the first computing platforms to cause the first computing platforms to perform second operations in accordance with introspection logic, the second operations being defined as inverse operations of at least some of the first operations; receive from the first computing platforms results from the performance of the second operations; and correlate the received results and the corresponding first operations, wherein the inverse operations are automatically determined by one or more of: looking up in a registry stored linkages between performable operations and their inverses, running an algorithm on performable operations to identify one or more inverses thereof, consulting historical and/or social-intelligence based information concerning linkages between performable operations and their inverses, and performing a context-based analysis on performable operations to identify one or more inverses thereof.