What do you do as a distributed system engineer
Hi All, I know I can find the answer over the internet but still, I would like to know from you. Can you please share the kind of work you any typical day. What kind of tech skills you would like anyone to get trained to do your job? Please list any hardcore tech skill that you use, like python, chef or Ansible, etc. I am keen to go into the distributed system so wanted to get a real picture. YoE: 14 TC: 110K in midwest
Used to be distributed systems nowadays configuring kubernetes lmao
So true man, welcome to config jungle
Then how come people in this jungle claim to get a higher salary than other regular software developers?
I work on a large, distributed, multi-tenant software platform. I spend a lot of effort just looking at anomalies in metrics and figuring out what’s causing problems. I think it’s kind of fun.
Don't you get tired of moving the red line every time your skip question why it's there?
Just some random examples from my limited experience: - If it’s a new system, people spend a lot of time just investigating how to architect it. Figuring out which cloud services to use, for example queues are everywhere in DS. You might do some block/sequence diagrams if it’s complex - Usually throughput is really important and you do a bunch of calculations to make sure the system can handle the expected load and you’re not wasting resources by over provisioning - people use load testing tools before launch to make sure the system can handle high throughput - lots of monitoring/logging because without these you have no way to debug distributed systems Languages: Java, C++, Go Skills: networking is pretty important since that’s the key to “distributed”, synchronization stuff like locking/atomicity
This is a gem. what if I am going into an existing team and system is already designed?
? You mean infrastructure?