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Learning to Build Distributed Systems
A common question I get at work is “how do I learn to build big distributed systems?”. I’ve written replies to that many times. Here’s my latest attempt.
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Career advice, or something like it
If I could offer you a single piece of career advice, it’s this: avoid negativity echo chambers.