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Hidden scaling issues of distributed systems - System design in the real world

What's this blog post about?

In the first episode of their interview series on distributed systems engineers' experiences and challenges, Plushcap explores hidden scaling issues with Paul Nordstrom, an entrepreneur and former Systems Architect at Google, Amazon, and OfferUp, and Paddy Byers, Co-Founder & CTO at Ably Realtime. The discussion covers unexpected problems, limits of scale, microservices, the CAP theorem, fault tolerance, team structure, and tips for building scalable distributed systems.

Company
Ably

Date published
Aug. 1, 2018

Author(s)
Freddie Gadd

Word count
6719

Hacker News points
None found.

Language
English


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