commitment

Yesterday I watched the introduction, and today I watched the lecture on RPC and threads. 

I'm enjoying the process, but my lack of familiarity with Go is going to be a problem. I can either continue with the course, trying to pick up Go as I go (ha), or switch to a different topic that is more introductory. 

I'll watch lecture three tomorrow and then make a decision. I've found that just watching these courses without trying to implement the problems myself results in very little retained knowledge. So I'm better off choosing a topic I can commit to and implement now than something that seems aspirational but slides off my brain in a few weeks.

Spent some time today deconstructing the GFS paper from 2003. 

Reviewed the challenges around tensions between consistency and performance in distributed storage systems.

It continues to surprise me how basic very large systems are when broken down into their components.

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