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Scattered Thoughts on Distributed Systems

Pat Helland

Random ideas about distributed computing, databases, life as software engineer, and other irrelevant things.

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    Building distributed systems and databases since 1978. Love learning, building, and helping others learn. Work at Salesforce.

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