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Ask HN: How to practice the development of large-scale systems?

Since not everyone has opportunities to do it at work, how to practice in playground projects if you don't have a cluster at home? I personally feel quite interested for the area, but have difficulties to keep studying only the theory. My current approach is to create a small project – with real data – design an architecture for specific constraints, and estimate how far it could go. Later, I...

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Ask HN: How to practice the development of large-scale systems?

Since not everyone has opportunities to do it at work, how to practice in playground projects if you don't have a cluster at home? I personally feel quite interested for the area, but have difficulties to keep studying only the theory.My current approach is to create a small project – with real data – design an architecture for specific constraints, and estimate how far it could go. Later, I...

( Read More... | 2 comments | 5 points | on HN )