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Re:Ask HN: How to learn how to scale software? by aristofun on Thursday March 28, 2024 @03:58PM (#39856600)
Skilles like that are only really learned by doing it.

There are no shortcuts, sorry. No amount of synthetic experiments, simulations, theoretical examples will give you the actual hands on knowledge.

For sure, books etc. are useful to gain some basic understanding.

But beyond that - you should set more practical and specific goals that would lead you to scaling challenges naturally.

For example - build your own web crawler etc.

Or just set a goal to join a company with demanding products.

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Re:Ask HN: How to learn how to scale software? by mathgeek on Friday March 29, 2024 @07:07AM (#39862647)
> Or just set a goal to join a company with demanding products.

Thie highlights a related but slightly different problem: it's important to learn enough to be able to talk about design choices for optimization, as these companies will throw you into such an interview as part of the hiring process.

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