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Jakub Chodounsky5 days ago
60,000 people lost full phone service, half of AT&T's network was down, and 500 airline flights were delayed
Jakub Chodounsky12 days ago
It's a combination of many different skills, mindsets, and disciplines.
Jakub Chodounsky19 days ago
Two decades ago, Google had a pair of small datacenters, each housing a few thousand servers
Jakub Chodounskya month ago
Out of rocks and sand as fast as possible without using too many words
Avoiding coordination allows us to build distributed systems that scale
They train you to be better at particular aspects of software engineering
Jakub Chodounsky2 months ago
From NTP, but where does NTP get the time from?
Create a debugger and understand how they work under the hood
A latency of just a few milliseconds can cause millions of loss in revenue
The right question at the right time can be the catalyst for advancements in tech
