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Re:Google copybara: moving code between repositories on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @11:56AM (#48748925)
I work at Google and copybara workflows are the bane of my existence.

Distributed System Design book recommendations?

So I work at a FAANG company where the ‘durrr relational databases’ don’t scale cult is preeminent. We draw fancy boxes and arrows and sweep the split brain problems under the rug. All literature I have read so far treat the topic very naively — I want something that airs out all the dirty laundry — split brain issues, failure recovery, etc and provides suggestions how to deal with it. I’ve...

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