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📣 multiplied

How can I gain some real distributed systems experience outside work?


Current work doesn't have such scale and all the challenges that go with it.

I could cook up some projects I suppose, and flood it with dummy data. Just curious if there are any better ideas?

  👤 DamonHD Accepted Answer ✓
Go and do some work on a heavily-used open source system that deals with distributed stuff, such as DNS/BIND or BGP or ActivityPub...
👤 acuozzo
What kind of distributed systems work?

Usenet (servers) are as much of a distributed system as a Hadoop cluster.

The same can be said for e.g., DNS vs. Spark.