60,000 people lost full phone service, half of AT&T's network was down, and 500 airline flights were delayed
It's a combination of many different skills, mindsets, and disciplines.
Two decades ago, Google had a pair of small datacenters, each housing a few thousand servers
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
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