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In my 20 years of engineering, all my distributed systems knowledge was learnt in a period of two years under two amazing engineers working in two failed startups

One was like those legendary OG dogmatic distributed systems software engineer that you can meet and the other was an OG data platform person. They have zero social media presence but they have guaranteed jobs whomever they call.

I learnt my transactions and services from engineer 1 and my analytic/data platform fundamentals from engineer 2

I have made more money in the enterprise land but I think the two failed startups did 10x more to help me grow as an engineer

I am rather confident that an AI cannot come close to what I do and my management knows that