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Dev tools · February 20, 2021

I wrote a book about distributed systems

What every developer should know about large distributed applications

I wrote a book about distributed systems launched on February 20, 2021 with 8 votes, #1,339 of 3,133 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 5 years on.

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