i didn't know you could do that! how does one volunteer to teach a course?
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#12couldn't find the syllabus
deploy something like cassandra and make a system that can update the kernel on the servers running the databases without downtime or losing data
or come up with some distrubuted blob store thing/cdn for world wide users
my whole career has been automating updates for software or operating systems lol
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#13Maybe reach out to Netflix's live streaming dept. since we all learn so much more from our own failures.
Cheers!
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#14Rachel by the Bay (https://rachelbythebay.com/) has long impressed me as someone who clearly is deep in the actual work of systems, day in and day out, and can write well about it.
Julia Evans has a wonderful approach as well, and has amazing talent for teaching: https://jvns.ca/
Kellan Elliott-McCrea (https://laughingmeme.org/) has given the world some of the better advice on the hardest parts of software scaling, which is of course scaling the human organizations. New grads are virtually always underestimating that part of the work; eventually you realize the hard problems are usually social and not technical.
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#15Charity Majors (https://charity.wtf) is a great writer and speaker, and her work on observability is directly relevant to infra at scale.
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#16Quite a strong cast of presenters back in Jan 2024
https://cs153.stanford.edu/syllabus.html
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#17Rachel by the Bay ( https://rachelbythebay.com/ ) has long impressed me as someone who clearly is deep in the actual work of systems, day in and day out, and can write well about it. Julia Evans has a wonderful approach as well, and has amazing talent for teaching: https://jvns.ca/ Kellan Elliott-McCrea ( https://laughingmeme.org/ ) has given the world some of the better advice on the hardest parts of software scalin…
i've followed Rachel and Julia for a long time, but didn't know about Kellan - thanks so much for that.
re: human org scaling - true and this was the most surprising thing for me when i was running the platform org at discord. companies ship their org charts whether they like it or not. and refactoring org charts correctly, at scale, is essentially untested in the modern era
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#18Quite a strong cast of presenters back in Jan 2024 https://cs153.stanford.edu/syllabus.html
thanks for noticing! this is the first time we're expanding it from 'security at scale' to 'infra at scale', but we've taught this course 2 yrs in a row now
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#19A progression of projects that comes to mind: 1) CI and IAC that deploy a web app running in a container 2) Add horizontal scaling and load balancer 3) Add long running tasks / scheduled task support 4) Deploys will likely break long running tasks. Implement blue/green or rolling deploys or some other sort of advanced deployment scheme 5) Implement rollbacks
Love this. Easy to Advanced, with 5 for extra credit. Thank you
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#20Not unsung, but Jay Kreps has made original contributions to the practice of building large scale systems. He also built a big business around it, so that perspective might also be interesting to students.