"a little knowledge is a dangerous thing" or "neem hakeem khatra jaan"
I realised this recently when I went through my old bookmarked videos and realised I learnt it wrong.
Now i know better from my experience, but it's quite shocking, that a beginner might be still watching these videos and learning it wrong.
Most content about system design and distributed systems is far from the truth, it includes all your famous YouTubers including Gaurav Sen etc
e.g wait till you realise that ACID guarantee doesn't mean anything and C-consistency is a made up concept.
we want an easy way out by just going through videos, and even the YouTuber can't make it complex, otherwise no one will watch their videos.
The real knowledge is still in those famous books, read those, otherwise you sound like a phony who just knows buzzwords, which is very easy to catch in an interview.
Most of the content taught by ~~t̶e̶c̶h̶~~ youtubers is simply wrong/incomplete
What do you mean by "Consistency is a made up concept" Consistency is not something that youtuber created, it's literally taught in CS curriculum too
Whoever is learning tech by watching video is doomed. Its like watching movie, seems very interesting, you think you are learning alot but wont be able to write a single line once you open code editor. Read books and docs and open source projects if you really want to learn tech.
Damn, I'm a spoon fed learner lol.
You don't need to exaggerate, to prove your point.
Can you suggest some good books to read for becoming a better Software Engineer. I have 4 years of experience but never directly did any System Design or took architectural decisions. How can I get better at these?
@samosa can you please suggest books for system design?
designing data intensive applications
If you want videos then Udemy is much better.
Rely on books and those should be only authentic ones.
Get into FAANG Open a YT channel and talk how you got in Make you feel worthless and you don’t know anything at all. Quit FAANG Sell Courses ( Discount in the name of charity ) Beg to buy the 999/- ultimate course Die
This is something that helped me a lot during my Engineering days and some of it I even used during my job. It is great to work through these problems out of curiosity as it builds great intuition around computing and algorithms.
https://grugbrain.dev/ Not exactly a resource, but very good for understanding the nuances of being a developer.
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