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Re:Ask HN: How did you become a hardcore back-end developer? by tptacek on Saturday March 05, 2011 @10:56AM (#2291647)
Being able to implement a working 2PC makes you a distributed systems programmer. It's not a piece of trivia.

It won't take you a month to learn these things, but with commit protocols in particular, you have to implement and test them to really grok them.

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