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"How many of you are from consulting? Oh that's bad. You should do something. No seriously, I don't think there nothing inherently evil in consulting, I think that without owning s…

I'd argue the opposite really, re: 'using C/C++ at all is probably "too clever"'. By using modern C++ features it is possible to enforce a Rust-like model of ownership, without any…

The weed work is the most painful though. We get through it at work because we have to. But for any personal hobby projects, I feel nails scraping blackboard level of frustration w…

I so wish all of this content was public. How lovely would it be for skill development if all of us had access to these assignments and projects with auto-graded tests.

Yes, I've had the opportunity to contribute to some existing projects but I've been limited to making feature contributions. I feel like my "system design" skills don't get exercis…

Could you please point me to any which don't have a turn-key solution like Etcd for Raft (and also have a need like consensus is a need for most distributed applications)?

I've always wanted to tackle some systems problems and develop an open source project similar to the likes of etcd, traefik, etc. My goals are: - Tackle distributed systems / syste…

Distributed Systems!

I feel the opposite way. When I was studying at university, I found it quite hard to motivate myself to do boring assignments, but after joining a BigCo and talking to customers wh…

PG was also involved in the inception of Reddit: It was PG who gave Alexis and Steve the idea to make something like reddit, and also gave them the tagline "the front page of the i…

It's built on top of PostgreSQL.

From Nat Friedman, future CEO of GitHub ( https://www.reddit.com/r/AMA/comments/8pc8mf/im_nat_friedman... ): "Developers are really particular about their setup, and choosing an ed…

Similar to Scott Fahlman's Scone Knowledge-Base Project: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sef/scone/

I recently read 'Measure What Matters' and find OKRs to be a great way to track personal goals.

Just to add on to the fantastic article: Designing Data‑Intensive Applications is a great book which tries to bridge the gap between distributed systems theory and practice.

Very interesting read.

It's astounding how much of Kubernetes is simply marketing. Google doesn't even use it internally. Service Fabric[0] is leagues ahead of any cluster orchestration framework, heck, …

“It's not that students don't "get" Kafka's humor but that we've taught them to see humor as something you get -- the same way we've taught them that a self is something you just h…

I've found Holub on Patterns to be a fantastic resource on applying GoF patterns to real world code.