How to make a network on meetups and turn into opportunity I mean asking for referral in their companies. first of all how to open without hesitation..
In the AI era, is it still worth spending significant time reading deep CS books like Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann?
Part of my hesitation is that AI tools can generate implementations for many distributed system patterns now. At the same time, I suspect that without understanding the underlying ideas (replication, consistency, partitioning, event logs, etc.), it’s hard to judge whether the AI-generated solution is actually correct.
For those who’ve read DDIA or similar books, did the knowledge meaningfully change how you design systems in practice?
looks like signal server is completely backed by java and redis(pub/sub) when compared to WhatsApp which is backed by erlang Is WhatsApp complicated their architecture by choosing erlang? Is signal getting benefit from java for handling million of concurrent users..