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by Tectorial 1913 days ago
Can somebody vote for the quality of this course?
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Just because you asked "vote" and not "vouch":

I expected to somewhere find at least a reference to the "fallacies of distributed computing" [1]. Looked into topic "how systems fail - what could go wrong".

Was surprised by the unstructured approach of a) (in the video) rambling down a list of personally encountered errors and b) (on the slides) presenting a messy picture containing the items of said list.

Together with the fact that the slides seem to have had no real update since 2016, i consider myself not part of the target audience and would not recommend this online class.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacies_of_distributed_compu...

> presenting a messy picture containing the items of said list.

It felt like a way to show the chaos factor in failures.

Better reread Aphyr.