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  "consensus": "\" That quote, at ↑349, keeps getting cited because nothing more efficient has been said. Another commenter at ↑236 credited it with giving them a shared language for architecture conversations with senior engineers — concrete enough to reach for when production problems appear. r/cscareerquestions adds 174 mentions with cooler, more neutral sentiment. It shows up on reading lists alongside Clean Code without getting the same reverence.",
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      "excerpt": "Read Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann. As a backend engineer, this is your bible.",
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      "excerpt": "Lol there was just a thread about this in the ExperiencedDevs sub TL DR of the thread 1. Systems Expert (by the AlgoExpert guy) is too basic and not worth the $100. 2. Read tech blogs. There's a free newsletter that sends out summaries of tech blogs (they also send leetcode…",
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      "excerpt": "Some things that could help: - my bachelor's degree was like 90% theory and I also slacked off with a 2.8 gpa lmao so I also felt like I didn't know anything, you could be in the same position, but you'll get practical knowledge on the job and that's what school doesn't give you really - school do…",
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