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Perhaps one of the consequences of getting information about programming topics mostly through twitter or other quick one take sources ;) More seriously, when

Perhaps one of the consequences of getting information about programming topics mostly through twitter or other quick one take sources ;) More seriously, when I started digging into distributed systems I just started picking up papers and reading and asking questions. It was definitely a meandering path until I synthesized, maybe after 1 year, what it was all about. Reading Paxos one week and DyanmoDB the next week made it tough to see the bigger picture. I think this survey post would have been really helpful to me in the past.

davidw 11y ago
> It was definitely a meandering path Which is fine, but not everyone has the time or inclination for that. Sometimes academic papers leave out lots of important practical details, or don't make a good connection with how a system might look in the real world. I think there's some room for a few good books that fill that space, although perhaps they exist and I'm not aware of them.
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