Running distributed systems at scale exposes you to very strange race conditions that you'd otherwise dismiss as "glitches"
I helped my team figure out what was going wrong with a popular low level HTTP library in Rust and we wrote about it here
https://t.co/SiNTevC4NF
I don’t think people understand how lonely it is to be ambitious when nothing is working yet.
You’re not successful enough to be respected. Not struggling enough to be pitied.
Just stuck with your thoughts.
"Doctors save lives".
No, they don't. And that may be the most misleading and damaging half-truth about healthcare, especially in a rundown country like ours.
Doctors, healthcare workers, do not save lives. Systems do. Working, functional systems do.
Our friends that leave this country 2/3 years ago are now like 10/20 years ahead of us. Look at us, stuck in quagmire of ice block, light, spaghetti, eggs, nysc and stupid, stupid conversations
Sigh