Yes it’s extremely interesting but just be warned: the hottest distributed systems applications are at either extremely competitive fintech firms or massive hou

Yes it’s extremely interesting but just be warned: the hottest distributed systems applications are at either extremely competitive fintech firms or massive household name software companies, because at the end of the day, those are the only groups that really need and can afford the state of the art. After you get a masters, if you want to continue working on the bleeding edge, those places are your options. So yes those are great career opportunities but they may not offer what you want culturally I work on / with what I think is pretty cutting edge distributed software but outside of academia most of the work is, at the end of the day, still engineering.