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If you want to think like a senior engineer, read these: 1. Google File System (GFS) 2. MapReduce 3. Bigtable 4. DynamoDB Paper 5. Kafka Architecture 6. Raft Consensus Algorithm 7. CAP Theorem 8. Spanner 9. Borg (Google Cluster Management) 10.The Tail at Scale

10 ideas to learn backend on a weekend: 0. Reverse proxy 1. API Gateway 2. Simple cron scheduler 3. KV store 4. Consistent hashing 5. Redis clone over TCP 6. Auth System 7. Server-sent events (SSEs) 8. Message Queue system 9. Distributed lock service

10 ideas to learn backend on a weekend: 0. Auth system 1. File upload (S3) 2. Notification system (push queue) 3. Chat backend (WebSockets) 4. Search autocomplete (trie) 5. Payment flow (idempotency/retries) 6. Feed generation (fanout-write/read) 7. Logging pipeline 8. Metrics system (time-series) 9. Recommendation stub

10 ideas to learn backend over a weekend: 0. Implement TCP 1. HTTP server 2. Websocket (simple chat) 3. Rate Limiters (All the algos) 4. Load Balancer 5. Message Queue 6. Distributed Cache (Redis) 7. Mini Log aggregator 8. Task scheduler 9. Url shortener (combine all)

I have a friend who wanted to become a senior engineer very early in his career. Just because he wanted the title badly. And he was tired of feeling average. He used to say one thing again and again: “I do not want to spend 8 years just writing tickets and then realize I never actually became a strong engineer.” So he created urgency. After office, he used to stay and pick one production system and go deep into it. How does the API handle retries? Why is this database query slow? What happens if this service goes down? How do logs, metrics and traces actually help during an incident? He was not trying to look busy. He was trying to understand the system like an owner. Most people around him were waiting. Waiting for a better project. Waiting for a mentor. Waiting for promotion cycle. Waiting for someone to teach them distributed systems. He did the opposite. He started taking small ugly problems that mattered - seriously. One day he fixed a memory leak. Another day he improved an API latency. Another day he wrote a proper postmortem after an incident. Another day he redesigned a retry flow so customers would not get duplicate orders. At that time, nobody clapped. No viral LinkedIn post. No big title. No special attention. But his brain slowly started believing: “Maybe I can actually become that engineer.” That is what urgency does. It makes your dream feel like a real project, not some fantasy you keep postponing. Today he is a Staff Engineer at a very good product based company. And honestly, it did not happen because he was some 10x genius. It happened because he started behaving like a senior engineer before anyone gave him the title. Most engineers want seniority. Very few create urgency. Urgency compounds. One extra debug session. One extra design doc. One extra deep dive into Kafka, Postgres, caching, observability, deployments. Do this for 2-3 years and suddenly people start saying: “Bro became lucky.” No bro. He just stopped waiting for tomorrow.

@mischavdburg God, I hope I get this.

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@TrollFootball Holy shit!!!

Goal celebration in slow motion

@aidenybai Yes

do colors actually make code easier to read?

@ManagingBarca @La_SER You gotta be kidding me, right(

🚨🚨🌕| MAJOR BREAKING: Joan Garcia has said YES to joining Barcelona! Barça want him to go on loan to Valencia for a year & he is open for that too. [@La_SER]

@ManagingBarca No way we can really become this lucky, right?

❗️Barcelona sign Joan Garcia, but Ter Stegen decides to leave…. Are you taking that deal? 👀

@ManagingBarca @mundodeportivo Please don't fumble this 🙏. Also, please sign a left winger and fullback & sell Ronald and Ter Stege. We would become unstoppable then.

🚨🚨🌕| MAJOR BREAKING: Barcelona have decided to sign Joan Garcia & will make a move soon! Deco & Flick AGREED on the need to sign a TOP goalkeeper — Garcia has already decided to leave Espanyol & his release clause of €25M is considered very attractive. [@mundodeportivo]

@BarcaUniversal Of course it is not over. It will be over this weekend when we will thrash Osasuna and celebrate infront of our local rivals.

Carlo Ancelotti: "La Liga is not over yet."

@BarcaUniversal Will they ever learn?

RMTV have published a video of errors made by referee Hernandez Hernandez ahead of the Clásico.

@ManagingBarca Go away. Please go away. I don't wanna take this anymore.

If you could say one thing to Ronald Araujo, what would you say?

@BarcaTimes @fansjavimiguel Go king! Please play good and win another one for us.

🚨🎖️| JUST IN: Gerard Martin is set to start in El Clasico. [@fansjavimiguel] #fcblive ✅

@FabrizioRomano Shut up, araujo. I just don't wanna see you ever again.

🚨 Ronald Araujo: “This Barça team will surely be able to win many Champions League titles in the upcoming years with this excellent group of youngsters”.

Culers. Together in triumph. Together in heartbreak. Always Barça. 🙏💙❤️

@ManagingBarca @elnacionalcat Not happening.

Welcome to hell, brothers!!!