Ask HN: Projects to do to get better at distributed systems

Posted by codenlearn on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @02:07PM
from the ask-hn dept.

For the majority of my career, I've worked as a backend engineer, but now I'm interested in transitioning towards a role as a distributed systems engineer. I've discovered a great resource at https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/index.html, which has been very helpful.

I would like to connect with others who have successfully made the transition from backend engineer to distributed systems engineer. What steps did you take, and what side projects did you work on to gain a better understanding of distributed systems?

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Re:Ask HN: Projects to do to get better at distributed systems by eevmanu on Thursday May 11, 2023 @08:54AM (#35901334)

I'd add Gossip Glomers [0] which are pretty similar to jepsen-io/maelstrom Documentation [1].

[0] <a href="https://fly.io/dist-sys"> Gossip Glomers</a>

[1] <a href="https://github.com/jepsen-io/maelstrom#documentation"> jepsen-io/maelstrom Documentation</a>

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Re:Ask HN: Projects to do to get better at distributed systems by codenlearn on Friday May 12, 2023 @01:31AM (#35912272)

Thank you. This is what I was looking for.

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