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> Distributed systems? You'll learn more about them at Google than anywhere else. They were first with solutions to distributed consensus and they'll likely be
by defen 12y ago
> Distributed systems? You'll learn more about them at Google than anywhere else. They were first with solutions to distributed consensus and they'll likely be first with whatever new need develops simply because their scale will ensure that they hit problems before almost anyone else.
What percentage of Googler's actually built that (certainly impressive) system, vs just use it? If you go work at some other company, is that knowledge of how to use Google's tech going to be portable, or are they going to want someone with a couple years experience using Storm/Spark/whatever?
- aiiane 12y agoA distributed lock server is a distributed lock server. Yes, there are always going to be a few implementation quirks, but when it comes down to actually designing a scalable system, the implementation quirks are noise - it's knowing what general tools to use and how they interact with one another that is the key insight. That knowledge is portable.