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This course is incredible. If anyone who had a hand in putting it together is reading, they have my thanks for putting out such an incredible course. I've done
by manish_gill 6y ago
This course is incredible. If anyone who had a hand in putting it together is reading, they have my thanks for putting out such an incredible course. I've done 2 labs and 5-6 lectures of this course so far and I find it absolutely worth it. I just wish I were a bit more disciplined about it (the pandemic made a lot of things harder for me). My goal is to eventually finish it and then make my own version of the Distributed KV store (perhaps in Rust?), and then perhaps even do a good Databases courses.
So far, it's allowed me to dive deep into how Map Reduce works, I even presented GFS in a local Distributed Systems group, and was able to understand Raft. I'm currently doing Raft labs (which is when the Pandemic happened). I've designed some sharding schemes in my previous company and worked a lot on Streaming systems but learning the theory behind everything is amazing.
If there are people here who would like to put a serious joint effort into doing this course, I would absolutely 100% be interested in it. Doing this alone from my apartment in a foreign country gets a bit tricky vs doing it in a group setting. :)
- mav3rick 6y agoAre the auto graders sufficient in verifying the solution ? Often the TAs have their own private scripts for enrolled students. Just a detail I wanted to know :)
- manish_gill 6y agoThe labs I've done so far came with their own test scripts and they are good enough, IMO :)
- blocked_again 6y agoRMT mentioned in lecture 1 that if the tests pass you can be pretty sure you would be getting full marks.
- stonecharioteer 6y agoOooh me me! I want to do this in rust. Hit me up on twitter. Same user ID.