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closeparen on July 14, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Learn how to design large-scale systems

Building a system out of a handful of services, databases, caches, and queues is table stakes for a backend engineering intern, not "epic skills."

slashdev on July 14, 2018 [–]

And knowing how to architect it so that it actually scales well is beyond most senior engineers. You underestimate the difficulty I think.

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