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# generals
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12/20/2023, 9:02 PMThis message was deleted.
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Jordan Chernev
12/20/2023, 9:06 PMit is indeed vague as you can have two different focuses, application / product development or systems / reliability
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Andrew Fong
12/20/2023, 10:32 PMor be a hardware person
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Brian A.
12/21/2023, 1:18 PMThere are no "distributed systems" out there besides Kubernetes. It's Kubernetes all the way down.
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Steve Mead
12/21/2023, 1:40 PMdistributed systems can also mean "stuff outwith the mainframe"
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Brian A.
12/21/2023, 1:44 PMWhat year is it? @Steve Mead
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Giovanni Tirloni
12/21/2023, 1:44 PMimplements Raft protocol in Rust all day long, of course
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Brian A.
12/21/2023, 1:47 PM...
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Steve Mead
12/21/2023, 1:48 PM2023 for a few more days @Brian A. 😉 I left a role just 2 years ago where most of the heavy lifting was still being done on IBM mainframes, and the term was still in widespread use in that company, by their vendor (of course) and in teams' names and job descriptions 🤷
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Andrew Fong
12/21/2023, 1:54 PMi mean the year of k8s is the same as the year of linux on the desktop